Tomkat, Bradgelina Get Pwned In Annual Banned Word List

ClickonDetroit ^ | December 31, 2006 | AP

[latina4dubya]

i had not realized it was "Bradgelina..." i thought it was "Brangelina." my bad... (now i do believe "my bad" ought to be banned)...

[The KG9 Kid]

"Pone"

[Professional Engineer]

Vey Hugh and Series.

Gotta take a shower now. BBL

[bannie]

GitmoGitmoGitmoGitmoGitmoGitmo

[bannie]

I wish to holy hell they would have.

Watch it..."holy hell's" gonna' get on the list, and THEN you'll be in big trouble. :-o

[ShadowDancer]

Please, I have many, many more to replace it with.

[bannie]

haha. And when those wear out, we can make more!

[longtermmemmory]

How about banning women with a "y".

or "undocumented worker"

or "judicial independence" (code for allowing judges to make up laws regardless of the black letter law)

[Petronski]

There's no 'e' in the word pwn3d.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Great list!

Especially "we're pregnant"!

[The_Reader_David]

Rot. It's not a misspelling: It's a portmantaeu word (as described in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.

It compresses into one word 'played', 'owned' and 'won'.

There is no 'Academie Francaise' for English. The prescriptivists who try to keep the language frozen or govern from some elite center its progress will inevitably get pwned by actual usage. Hopefully, pwned is here to stay like the modal use of 'hopefully'.

[kenth]

No pr0n?

[cloud8]

"But how is 'pwn' pronounced? Pawn? Pown? Poon?"

> As a linguist, I can answer that for you. It's one of those words delegated to the irrelevant and can be pronounced in any number of ways because no one in History will give a rat's rump about it!

Pwned originally dates back to the days of WarCraft, when a map designer mispelled "Own" as "Pwn". What was originally supposed to be "player has been owned." was "player has been pwned." See the Urban Dictionary entry. Here's a cite from 1989:

so I guess pwn has already wormed its way into history and the language.

> In it's most direct, ancient translation it means, "You're a LOSER...

BTW, Miss Linguist, no apostrophes in English possessive pronouns ;-)

[Rick Deckard]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Good God, Man! What happened to your dog? LOL!

[Dead Corpse]

[Rick Deckard]

It's not mine, but it obviously got "pwn3d" by a porcupine.

Happy New Year!

[lesser_satan]

Holy crap, he didn't know when to quit! I wonder how the porcupine looked, other than being a few quills the poorer.

[Rick Deckard]

I wonder how much the vet bill was to remove all those quills. I'd think that "Spuds" learned his lesson about messing with porcupines.