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[–] 106 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

Owned with a P sound in front.

Powned.

It's one of the first internet slang words I ever heard spoken over voice chat and it was always pronounced this way.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months 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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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    It is pronounced like pony; pown.

    This isn't even a debate. It's canon. "Pooned" like poon is a comedic acceptable variant.

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    [–] 23 points 9 months ago

    pohned is correct.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago

    Pwned rhymes with boned.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    On pure pwnage they pronounced it 'owned'

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 9 months 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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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

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

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Which brings us back to where we started:

    How exactly do you pronounce pwned?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Pronounced "owned." 1337 speak is cringe but thems the rules.

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    [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    That's not a word I say out loud.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Poownd obviously

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Poned, but occasionally pew-ned for reasons

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    The "G" in "gif" is the same as the "G" in "garage"

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's also the same "G" in George...

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I say pwned, but I think pwned is also an acceptable pronunciation. But if you say it like pwned, you're dead to me.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    As owned with a "puh" on the front, but not as an extra syllable.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    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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