pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Owned with a P sound in front.

  Powned.

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  • cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I have heard people mispronounce it various other ways on purpose, ironically, as mockery, but I agree that depends on people knowing there's a correct pronunciation in the first place, which there is, as you've accurately described.

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It is pronounced like pony; pown.

  This isn’t even a debate. It’s canon.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pown’d.

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• Mangoguana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Poownd obviously

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• Alenalda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Like this pure pwnage

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• DecentM@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  P-you-nd - cus it’s fun to say

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• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Powned”, long o

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes It’s just “Owned” with a “P” at the beginning. P-Owned.
    Just like you pronounce “Boned”.

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    • TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s what she said

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  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your description made me read it like “pooned” at first.

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  pohned is correct.

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• Gobbel2000@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait, it’s not pronounced pffned?

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s pronounced pwned, as all right thinking people know

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who pronounces pwned

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    NERDS!

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  • laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I bet you pronounce gif wrong, too.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pwned rhymes with boned.

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• capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  pawned, as “pawn” from “pawn shop”, and “ned” same as the name

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• BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pronounced “owned.” 1337 speak is cringe but thems the rules.

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  • khepri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I agree, although looks like you and I stand alone in this lol

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    • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s okay they’ve been wrong for decades, must sting.

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yup.

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• dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Considering that it began as a typo of owned, this shouldn't be hard to figure out.

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  • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Excuse me, this is the internet. There is nothing that can’t be made into extreme controversy.

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s not a word I say out loud.

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• kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  On pure pwnage they pronounced it ‘owned’

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  • khepri@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s how we’d say it when actually gaming. “Total ownage” man was that fun to yell at your friends while the four of you clustered around a CRT playing Halo on a 4-way split screen and one controller was always the garbage one and mountain dew affected you like cocaine…

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• Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As it’s written. Pwned. No need to stick an extra “o” or “a” or any other vowel in between.

  It says “pwned”, so “pwned” it is.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Which brings us back to where we started:

    How exactly do you pronounce pwned?

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    • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Pee-double-you-NED!

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Like pwnd, which is something like pünd or /pʊnd/

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    • Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I sometimes see people saying “pronounce it like it’s the name of a Greek philosopher” or “pronounce it as if it was Spanish”.

      There’s a “p”, a “w”, an “n”, an “e” and a “d”. Say those in a row. “As if it was Spanish”, to make sure that e is really e and not i.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Like tomato.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    you gotta remember most people on here are not estonian

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• sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  like the chess piece with eight on each side. The one that can be promoted to any other non-king piece once it gets to the other side. pwned is getting your data leaked, being “pawned” means getting taken advantage of/being puppeted by a higher power, and I always linked that to being scammed through a phishing attack (and usually your data has been leaked, you have been pwned)

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  • adhd_traco@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yup, I also think of chess when I read it, so pawned - turned into a pawn, demoted to the weakest piece, etc.
    If I read owned, then it’s owned.

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• ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Poned, but occasionally pew-ned for reasons

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  …pOWNed

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• jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I say “pownt”.

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• i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  After not knowing for ages, I recently discovered it was pronounced pooned. The W is pronounced the same as in Welsh.*

  • The Welsh language, not the word “Welsh”

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  • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    pwelshned

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  • khepri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m def saying “pooned” from now on. I’m going to tell people it originated from Moby Dick and is short for “harpooned” 🤣🤣 Get 'Pooned ye White Whale!

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• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Poond

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• ar99644@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I pronounce it “Pee-owned”. It adds even more insult to the injury I think.

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• Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Player-Owned

  P-Owned

  Powned

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  • Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Just for the benefit of anyone who doesn’t know, this is not the actual etymology.

    It just started as a misspelling of “owned” (with p and o being next to each other on the keyboard).

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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s true, but I would argue that the player owned definition of it came so quickly on the heels of the typo that both could count as valid, with the caveat that the first usage being a typo would have to be considered a mistake, rather than the coining of the slang term itself.

      Which is stretching things a bit, but still fun to think about.

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    • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Correct, which is why it should be pronounced just like the word that was meant to be typed, only replacing the "o" with a "p" sound. It wasn't that hard to figure out when it became a thing, people just like word drama.

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    • Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Huh, I legit thought thought thats how we got it. Never been important enough to look into it.

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• l3enc@piefed.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  pwand or p-wand (pee wand)

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• voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  4. I’m Gerald of Nivea. Up for a game of Pwent?

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• faintwhenfree@lemmus.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pow ( like bow wow) + Ned (like Ned Stark)

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• dudleyflippendoodle@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Pernonin”, as in “grannies are for pernonin n00bz”

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