why is it spelled Pwned instead of Owned?

[Kayo]

****...pwned= Pure Ownage

[TheGR8TESTOAT]

****...pwned= Pure Ownage

pure ownage huh?

that makes more sense actually?

[mgkirkpatrick]

this is my favourite definition on that site..


Created in 1972 by the 3rd SOG (Special Operations Group) when a Lt. Colonel Hank Munro shot a Vietnamese sentry with a Mk22 Hush Puppy. Due to the tension at the time, he inadvertantly said "pwned" instead of "Delta, move in and eliminate all hostiles." The subsequent death of Lt. Col. Munro as he charged a heavily fortified position lead to the term "pwned" being adopted as short-hand for "that dumbass just got his ass whupped in a helluva funny way."

"Did you see that car crash where 27 people died after someone swerved to avoid a cat?"
"PWNED."

[Kayo]

pure ownage huh?

that makes more sense actually?

yeah took me awhile to figure it out..lol

[-Antonio-]

I had to look it up because I had no clue either a couple of years ago. Apprently it originated in online gaming when people would misspell owned. Thats all there is to it.

[damian5000]

I had to look it up because I had no clue either a couple of years ago. Apprently it originated in online gaming when people would misspell owned. Thats all there is to it.

This makes sense, I think it goes further back than recent online games and is most likely an intentional misspelling. Look at definition 7 from the urban dictionary:

"This term actually comes from a game created hundreds of years ago, even before computers were invented. This game was called, 'chess'. The object of the game was to put the other player in checkmate, meaning, he was unable to move his king anywhere that he would not be threatened by another piece. Also in this game, you have 8 pieces at the front of your army called 'pawns', these were the least useful of all pieces, but that is not to mean they were worthless. If you could defeat the other player by using your pawn to apply check, that was called, and is still called pawned.

Now, back in the early 80's, before warcraft, counterstrike or even the INTERNET, there were ways you could contact other PC's by using a modem. These were called BBS's and allowed you to connect to individual computers acting as severs where games would be so that people could play other people they did not know. Now, when I used to play these games as well as many other people 22+, they used to use and coined the phrase, 'pwned'. Which was slang for pawned. It eventually was taken from just chess and used in other text based games to taunt the loser of a match. It is now commonly wide spread across the world, although the children do not understand its true meaning."

[hemichromis]

its funny how often its used here when noone seems to know what it means!!!

[Fox McCloud]

So far we have 3 theories...

1. Mispelling of owned due to the proximity of the p to the o.
2. Pure ownage.
3. Shortened version of pawned.

I always thought it was #1.

[Ramamaiden]

kessler is gonna get pwned on saturday =D

[The Noose]

It was probably done by accident since the o is next to the p, and people just rolled with it

Is that why people type "teh" instead of "the"?

****. People are such *******s!

People say bad instead of good.

We may as well start shoving food up our asses and coughing up **** with our heads in the toilet.


The smog killed god in the 1920's. U just remember that.