[Diana in Wisconsin]

"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!

In it's most direct, ancient translation it means, "You're a LOSER if you pay ANY attention to these two, and give them any credit for anything beyond hyping their own fading Star Power." :)

[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]