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.
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.
"Powned", long o
Yes
It's just "Owned" with a "P" at the beginning. P-Owned.
Same way you pronounce "Boned".
It is pronounced like pony; pown.
This isn't even a debate. It's canon. "Pooned" like poon is a comedic acceptable variant.
This clip from Brooklyn 99 uses what I consider to be the only two acceptable pronunciations. The first obviously the silly way, the second the proper.
Considering that it began as a typo of owned, this shouldn't be hard to figure out.
On pure pwnage they pronounced it 'owned'
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...
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.
Which brings us back to where we started:
How exactly do you pronounce pwned?
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.
you gotta remember most people on here are not estonian so you gotta make it easy for the folks who need to insert extra letters just to not do a diphthong
Pronounced "owned." 1337 speak is cringe but thems the rules.
I agree, although looks like you and I stand pretty much alone in this among all these "hack-zors" lol
Who pronounces pwned
The "G" in "gif" is the same as the "G" in "garage"
It's also the same "G" in George...
Also the G in garbage.
What a mess of a word now that I look at it. Two Gs pronounced differently, an "E" at the end that does not effect the second "A" (as in Rag vs. Rage). Like imagine trying to pronounce that word if you've never seen it, or spell it if you'd only heard it
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)
I say pwned, but I think pwned is also an acceptable pronunciation. But if you say it like pwned, you're dead to me.
After not knowing for ages, I recently discovered it was pronounced pooned. The W is pronounced the same as in Welsh.*
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