Do you actually say "pown" for pwn?

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First of all, saying(typing) pwn is so god damn stupid, but that's another topic for another thread. So, retards say(type) it, fine, I can live with that. But I've been playing WoW, and people in my ventrilo channel actually say "pown"... is that common? Seemed so retarded to me.

And people say "w-t-f", actually saying the letters, instead of just saying "what the fuck"... and a common thing is to type "kk", meaning okay, but people actually say "k-k".

Am I just out of touch with the hip gaming crowd, or are these people idiots? Maybe both.
 
a couple of times in real life I will say O-M-G or B-R-B (on rare occasions when something truly major comes along), even though I think those things are stupid even on messageboards and chatting... I think I just said that to be purposely funny though, not as regular slang lingo...

I seriously would look down on people using that lingo in chat and online boards, but now even I have been accustomed to using them...

I have become what I once hated

:/

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commish said:
First of all, saying(typing) pwn is so god damn stupid, but that's another topic for another thread. So, retards say(type) it, fine, I can live with that. But I've been playing WoW, and people in my ventrilo channel actually say "pown"... is that common? Seemed so retarded to me.

And people say "w-t-f", actually saying the letters, instead of just saying "what the fuck"... and a common thing is to type "kk", meaning okay, but people actually say "k-k".

Am I just out of touch with the hip gaming crowd, or are these people idiots? Maybe both.
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those people are idiots
 
When I began to have access to BBSes, and the Internet (very early), I knew the language would someday become degraded. So I always made a bow to avoid as much as possible these contrictions and to write perfectly good french (and english). Even in IM chat conversations, I will say it the way it's meant to, even if it's longer, I don't care.
 
Acronyms that can be said in one syllable, or significantly shorten the word, I can understand, but W-T-F is like... 5 syllables compared to 3! On a similar note, it's always amused me that tv/radio hosts when giving out URLs, are forced to say 'double-u, double-u, double-u' for 3 letters.

And on a side note, pwned at least as far as I understand it, is a self-ownage. So it's not quite the same as owned... and in a environment such as online gaming, there's no quite more direct way to communicate that kinda self-ownage that occurs frequently then with the word 'powned'. Its fine in its context... but outside of it... and it can be scary :P
 
Yes, I usually say "p--owned!" or just "powned!".
It's about the only geek internet slang I actually say in real life - but it's just so dorky that it's funny amongst my friends.
 
I actually said that yesterday.

"powned"

Strange feeling.. hearing that from my own voice.

My friend was mocking children on Xbox Live, saying (in his best 12 year old voice) "Man, I totally owned you guys... I gotta go, my mom wants me to go to bed."

I corrected him with the new internetese version of owned.
 
Only time I say these things in real life is:

1) I'll say "WTF" imitating that 'end of the world' guy from Ebaums.
2) I'll say entire sentences in this leet bullshit just to make fun of everyone. Nothing quite like responding a professor saying "OMG W T F LOL pls IMO" just like that.
 
It's better than this guy who lived in my same dorms last year: he would actually phonetically spell out WTF (ie. "WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT??")

He was so cool
 
Bebpo said:
:O

Everyday the people of this world frighten me more and more.
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how bout the people that say "eff that" or " what the eff". I've also heard just plain ol' "EFF!"

I hate it.
 
my roomate likes to say, "he powned him like a noob" or similar variaitons. Not because he likes saying it, but because he knows it irritates me.
 
Heh, I actually use pwned with some frequency -- I've always pronounced it "powned" since there's really no way to do it otherwise without it being gibberish. I've known some people to say 'W-T-F' out loud but I've never done it.. it seems kinda pointless to me.

Also, I've been using kk ("kay-kay") for years on and offline, I dont see any reason not to.
 
slayn said:
my roomate likes to say, "he powned him like a noob" or similar variaitons. Not because he likes saying it, but because he knows it irritates me.
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That's the only acceptable reason to ever use internet sayings in real life. Even then it's barely passable though.
 
Why say it? Its a typing joke/gag/thing, its like if you did a hand gesture to someone over the phone (pointing to something for them)- pointless *no pun intended.
 
I don't say anything like that out loud, but I'm one of those people who reads everything and imagines it being spoken in my head, so I always imagine it sounding like "pown."
 
I do not see the point in saying each letter of an acronym. If i ever caught anyone saying w t f or o m g in real life, I would kick them in their respective reproductive organs. They would be need them, they already failed at life.

Rorschach said:
I say PRONG'D.

When I read "WTF" I read it as "What the fuck" not "dubya tee eff" same for lol, brb, etc
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I do not read lol as laughin out loud. I read it as an action. "That person is laughing.".
 
I never even liked that one, I like 0wn3d--and that is "OWNED" not "ZERO-DOUBLEYEW-EN-THREE-DEE!"

p'zoned
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I like that.

When I read "WTF" I read it as "What the fuck" not "dubya tee eff" same for lol, brb, etc
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Same here, this thread is trippy to me. Do you have a strong left or right brain dominance? I have a theory...
 
CVXFREAK said:
I only type it when I type 1337. Other than that, I don't say it. :lol
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That's another one. I know a lot of people who say "leet" (in a very similar way as they say "w00t") when they refer to that, but while it may be number-spelled like that, it stands for "elite". It's just with a thug accent that combines the E and the L instead of saying "e-leet".
 
Me and my friend say "powned" whenever we're playin games or whatever,it isn't like we walk up to random people on the street and say "Haha,you just got powned!".It's funny when used at the right time,lighten up the lot of ya.
 
Ramirez said:
Me and my friend say "powned" whenever we're playin games or whatever,it isn't like we walk up to random people on the street and say "Haha,you just got powned!".It's funny when used at the right time,lighten up the lot of ya.
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NO!
 
The Fiancee's brother uses 'pa-owned' all the time. Everytime I hear it, I remind him he's a fucking retard for using it.. it's just not cool. :(
 
After that End of World flash movie (the one with the guysgoing through the different coun tries bombing each other) I've been saying "W-T-F Mate", with people looking at me weird.
 
Last night this tool say "lull", meaning "lol", seriously, wtf is wrong with people. I actually hate this guy.
 
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