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#52
11-08-2006, 09:16 PM
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Re: how do you pronounce \"PWNED?\"
P-O-W-N-D
and yeah, there is no way to say it and look cool. Especially on national TV DN. 
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#53
11-08-2006, 09:25 PM
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Re: how do you pronounce \"PWNED?\"
Think of TELEPHONING someone. It's like PHONED with out the H. I don't see how typing powned helps people to determine how to pronounce it??
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#54
11-08-2006, 09:27 PM
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Re: how do you pronounce \"PWNED?\"
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Think of TELEPHONING someone. It's like PHONED with out the H. I don't see how typing powned helps people to determine how to pronounce it?? [/ QUOTE ] Because some people rightly think it's pronounced "poon'd" or "p'you'nd", and writing it "powned" helps differentiate.
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#55
11-08-2006, 09:31 PM
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Re: how do you pronounce \"PWNED?\"
I pronounce it "owned", as it's a mistype, etymologically derived.
My friend pronounced it "pawned" and i begged to differ. I pronounce ZOMG zzz-omg because that's unlikely to be a mistype. I think it doesn't matter in teh great scheme of things [yes that was a mistype, yes i've left it in and sometimes i say "teh" even though this violates my 'pwned' rule].
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#57
11-08-2006, 09:34 PM
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Re: how do you pronounce \"PWNED?\"
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This thread is becoming a jopke. [/ QUOTE ] CANNOT believe we didn't enter that one yet. I pronounce that with a p too. I love the english language and its constant surprises.
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#58
11-08-2006, 09:40 PM
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Re: how do you pronounce \"PWNED?\"
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Think of TELEPHONING someone. It's like PHONED with out the H. I don't see how typing powned helps people to determine how to pronounce it?? [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, agree. "Powned" has multiple phonetic possibilties - rhyming with either "owned" or "pound". Yet poster after poster types "powned" like it should be obvious. I think the best way to explain it is either like you did or "poaned", as in ryhmes with "moaned". All that said, this is clearly the most retarded semantics debate I've ever willingly involved myself in, so if you'll excuse me I'm going to kill myself.
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#59
11-08-2006, 09:45 PM
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Re: how do you pronounce \"PWNED?\"
au contraire, webspeak is fascinating. I'm sure linguists and etymologists everywhere are salivating and despairing in equal measures about its future.
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#60
11-08-2006, 09:49 PM
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Re: how do you pronounce \"PWNED?\"
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Dom, So, you are saying that you have actually used this word “in real life”. Please, tell me you were drunk or something. RJT [/ QUOTE ] lol...no, I haven't actually used it in conversation, but when I read it my mind pronounces it "pawned."
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