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.
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.
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...
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
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
I mean as long as you knew the word age you'd probably pronounce it in a more stilted way, but similar to british people. Gare - age. American english is just weird because Gare becomes Gurr and age becomes odge.
Oh yeah I didn't even consider "gare - adge" vs "gar - ahj" or however the heck you would try and spell the difference in the way it's pronounced. Every time I think about it, I'm so grateful that I don't have to try and learn English as an adult...
I was about to say that garage doesn't have the wrong "g" for GIF, but then I realized that some people might be ending "Garage" with an actual "j" sound
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)
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.
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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Kolanaki@pawb.social · 106 pts · 289d
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.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 289d
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.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 289d
"Powned", long o
Steve@communick.news · 47 pts · 289d
Yes
It's just "Owned" with a "P" at the beginning. P-Owned.
Same way you pronounce "Boned".
db2@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 289d
That's what she said
TheDoozer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 288d
BONE!
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 289d
Your description made me read it like "pooned" at first.
foggy@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 288d
It is pronounced like pony; pown.
This isn't even a debate. It's canon. "Pooned" like poon is a comedic acceptable variant.
Artaca@lemdro.id · 4 pts · 287d
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.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 288d
Pown’d.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 289d
pohned is correct.
dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io · 16 pts · 289d
Considering that it began as a typo of owned, this shouldn't be hard to figure out.
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 289d
Excuse me, this is the internet. There is nothing that can't be made into extreme controversy.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 289d
Pwned rhymes with boned.
kandoh@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 289d
On pure pwnage they pronounced it 'owned'
khepri@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 289d
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...
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 289d
It's pronounced pwned, as all right thinking people know
Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee · 10 pts · 289d
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.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 289d
Which brings us back to where we started:
How exactly do you pronounce pwned?
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 289d
Pee-double-you-NED!
Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee · 3 pts · 289d
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.
_NetNomad@fedia.io · 3 pts · 289d
pwnedcles
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 289d
PuWoNed?
Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee · 2 pts · 289d
Drop the u and o away from between and you've got it :)
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 289d
This guy!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 289d
Like pwnd, which is something like pünd or /pʊnd/
db2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 289d
Like tomato.
lime@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 289d
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
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 10 pts · 289d
Pronounced "owned." 1337 speak is cringe but thems the rules.
khepri@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 289d
I agree, although looks like you and I stand pretty much alone in this among all these "hack-zors" lol
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 6 pts · 289d
It's okay they've been wrong for decades, must sting.
Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 287d
Correct. Written as pwned, pronounced "owned"
teh_pwnerer says so Source
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 289d
Yup.
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 289d
That's not a word I say out loud.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 289d
Who pronounces pwned
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 288d
NERDS!
laranis@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 288d
I bet you pronounce gif wrong, too.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 7 pts · 289d
Poned, but occasionally pew-ned for reasons
Mangoguana@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 288d
Poownd obviously
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 289d
The "G" in "gif" is the same as the "G" in "garage"
heydo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 289d
It's also the same "G" in George...
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 289d
Also the G in garbage.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 7 pts · 289d
Also the G in gyro.
khepri@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 289d
oh don't you dare start that shit we'll be here all day
tedd_deireadh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 289d
hif lol
lime@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 289d
jaragge
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 289d
Sounds fancy, I only have a car-hole. :(
fulcrummed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 289d
Jarrajee
khepri@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 289d
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
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 289d
This is why I prefer "car hole"
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 289d
I prefer car hole too, but don't tell me wife.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 288d
I mean as long as you knew the word age you'd probably pronounce it in a more stilted way, but similar to british people. Gare - age. American english is just weird because Gare becomes Gurr and age becomes odge.
khepri@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 288d
Oh yeah I didn't even consider "gare - adge" vs "gar - ahj" or however the heck you would try and spell the difference in the way it's pronounced. Every time I think about it, I'm so grateful that I don't have to try and learn English as an adult...
otp@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 289d
I was about to say that garage doesn't have the wrong "g" for GIF, but then I realized that some people might be ending "Garage" with an actual "j" sound
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 289d
..pOWNed
sbeak@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 289d
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)
adhd_traco@piefed.social · 2 pts · 288d
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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Pineapple on pizza is correct vim is better than emacs debian is the best linux distro startrek is a bad show :::
sbeak@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 289d
being angry on the internet is one thing, you have to give evidence to support your argument
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 289d
After not knowing for ages, I recently discovered it was pronounced pooned. The W is pronounced the same as in Welsh.*
khepri@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 289d
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 Noob Whale!
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 289d
pwelshned
lunar17@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 288d
I say pwned, but I think pwned is also an acceptable pronunciation. But if you say it like pwned, you're dead to me.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 289d
Poond
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 3 pts · 287d
As owned with a "puh" on the front, but not as an extra syllable.
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 287d
"pfned"
voracitude@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 289d
popcornpizza@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 289d
Alenalda@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 288d
Like this pure pwnage
Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 287d
Shameful to not link the original series, but I fully agree, it's definitely pronounced "owned", and anyone who says otherwise is a massive noob
Allero@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 287d
Poowned
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 289d
Player-Owned
P-Owned
Powned
Apepollo11@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 289d
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).
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 289d
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.
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 289d
Huh, I legit thought thought thats how we got it. Never been important enough to look into it.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 289d
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.
Gobbel2000@programming.dev · 1 pts · 288d
Wait, it's not pronounced pffned?
DecentM@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 288d
P-you-nd - cus it's fun to say
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 287d
Pwooned
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 289d
Pow ( like bow wow) + Ned (like Ned Stark)
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 288d
I say "pownt".
dudleyflippendoodle@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 289d
“Pernonin”, as in “grannies are pernonin noobs”
Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 288d
I don’t pronounce it.
0nt0p0fth3w0rld@feddit.org · 0 pts · 289d
Puh-Win-Nuh-Ed
ar99644@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 288d
I pronounce it "Pee-owned". It adds even more insult to the injury I think.
capuccino@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 288d
pawned, as "pawn" from "pawn shop", and "ned" same as the name
l3enc@piefed.ee · -3 pts · 289d
pwand or p-wand (pee wand)