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To: snarkytart; Pravious; proud American in Canada

Pwned is an accidental deviation of the word “owned,” which through online video gaming came to mean “you just got humiliated.” Pwned came into being when someone accidentally hit the letter P instead of O on the keyboard, as the two keys are next to each other. It became accepted for its ridiculousness, and is now a more forceful version of owned.


4,845 posted on 10/15/2008 7:38:40 PM PDT by Terpfen (To all you knee-jerkers: remember Rick Santorum.)
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To: Terpfen

Pwned is an accidental deviation of the word “owned,”

You mean like series and hugh? Hee, hee!


5,917 posted on 10/15/2008 8:21:05 PM PDT by luckymom (Forget the baby whales, save the baby humans.)
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