Could you use orthogrphic marks to illustrate how you actually say that? My kids, naturally enough, make it a kind of breathy equivalent to saying "Tess" without the ess.
IOW, rhymes with 'heh'.
I've encountered someone who says his son says 'tay'; I almost never say it aloud, but I've occasionally said 'pwned' aloud; I pronounce it 'poned'. This has always turned out to be a bad idea.
3: I don't have any issues saying pwned aloud. Usually, that's because I practice total pwnage and nobody would ever challenge my pwnery (pwnership?).
True 14m3rz like to use Internet acronyms in day-to-day conversation: "So I was like LOL [pron. 'loll'] and I had to STFU [pron 'ess-tee-foo'] when the teacher came back in." Or somthing like that, IYKWIM AITYD.
I pronounce teh like Tia does when I'm reading, but have never to date used it in speech. I pronounce pwn and its derivatives as if they were spelled pawn-, don't ask me why, I don't know.
Speaking of teh ghey or whatever we're supposed to call it around here: two-man luge.
When I read JO's 5, I thought... pron? how did we get to pr0n? it's only comment number 5!
discuss.
Eventually luge developers will give us the three-man luge, and then the four-man; and ultimately the five-man luge with a bonus man underneath the sled.
The bonus man gives you extra precision where you need it most.
The bonus man gives you extra precision where you need it most.
That's a beautiful sentence, Standpipe. Sounds like it should be in a razor commercial, or somethin'.
I went to a small concert the other day, and the program had a funding credit to "Teh Alice and Steward Locke Foundation" (or some such names). For several minutes I actually thought "Teh" must be someone's name: "Oh, that's teh funny that someone's name should be 'Teh.' Oh, wait...." But then when I tried to share the humor with my non-internet-addicted Sig. Other, I ended up feeling a little silly.
Tangential to 11, I once attended a college graduation where the programs listed students who had graduated magma cum laude.
(BTW, whoever made comment numbers visible in preview: Thank you!)
I'm sure I don't know what you mean, MAE. The bonus man is the subwoofer in the Dolby Surround of luge.
I've always pronounced 'pwned' (in my head, never out loud) like the sound Lionel's sword made on Thundercats. I guess phonetically it would be "pooned", but with a cool, triumphal cartoon sword sound.
I've always pronounced 'pwned'
I pronounce it like "pawned," but without the a.
like the sound Lionel's sword made on Thundercats.
Really? For me it's more like the sound my 4th-level orc fighter/cleric's axe makes after I roll a natural 20.
pwned while discussing the word 'pwned'
Touche.
My 17 YO brother actually says WTF out loud, as in "double-u-tee-eff" as described in 5. I told him he had to stop that and just start saying "fuck" like a normal human being.
Perhaps that is the sibling corollary to my SI swimsuit edition theory.
You know, Becks, you could slip your underage bro some adults-only real pr0n in order to save him from the SI swimsuit issue.
Guys always LOVE getting some nice pr0n from their mother or sister.
I think you meant, "Saying 'WTF' rather than 'fuck' is not for me."
I've been knopw to say pron, pwn, pwnzored, andfuxxored out loud. Teh may also have slipped out once in a while.
Tim, you don't understand. Internet acronyms are qualitatively different from fruit salad.
I was always taught not to "ess-ay-wye" fuck around the childrens.
(True, Tim, that was hyperbole. I did say it much nicer than that.) I will admit to saying "pwned" out loud occasionally. And I have made references to CCMC in non-blog company by accident, which have been greeted by blank stares.
27: What is that, like, Socratic trolling?
Nice. I didn't know it was a blogospheric convention.
blogospheric
Its genesis was explained in some Unfogged thread a few weeks ago. I have never seen it other than on Unfogged and Bitch, Ph. D.
It's from an Onion infographic, but its widespread usage here can be credited to Kotsko.
This gets dragged out every so often, but it's originally from an Onion inforgraphic on how single people are spending Valentine's day.
Or, what apo said but misspelled.
Link to one of Kotsko's first comment references to it on Unfogged. Link to the Onion infographic.
I had heard it used on sites before Unfogged, though. Slashdot maybe?
"Signs I spend too much time on the internet" s/b "Hahaha, losers, I got lilies."
The only way to get herpes is to get laid, so there's that.
Also, so soon you forget the cuffs and the cable guy.
33/4/5 -- so the phrase is 3 years old now. Prolly time for it to be put out to pasture and replaced with something a little more hiply cynical. Nominations? I'm just happy everybody is accepting without comment my alternate spelling in 29.
I'm feeling abused today. At least Alameida's subconscious loves me.
My daughter often says "double u t f" to avoid swearing, at the dinner table, say. We tolerate it. Why not?
okay, okay, i can't take it anymore.
"teh" i figured out on my own. but "pwned"?
i know, i know, boring question. but: ?
vielen dank.
Weiner-pwned = beaten to essentially the same comment.
"p" is right next to "o" on your querty keyboard, mmf!
What's it called when Weiner is pwned and then someone else, say me, is pwned by Weiner?
48 to 46, of course. If you guys aren't going to leave me an open field to comment, could you at least finish this paper I have to submit by the end of the day?
49: Weiner-pwned Weiner Weiner-pwns one.
No, but I'll eat your BBQ and drink your beer.
Leaving me with a few more hours to work on the paper? Sweet!
53: Are you sure?
Cheney told Hume he had BBQ and a beer at lunch. (That should be an interesting point of discussion.)
Here's what I really meant when I said I got lilies.
I say, from observation and experience, that not closing a comment's italics tag reduces its shazam by 50%.
God, I am so bitter about this time I was talking about "ogling" someone, and this one guy was like, "It's 'oogle'", and I was like, "No fucking way," and this other guy was like, "No, it is 'oogle,'" and they actually made me doubt myself. Also, there was this other time in college I used the word "advent" in conversation and this girl tried to tell me that "advent" did not mean "arrival," or in fact have any meaning other than the period before Christmas, and what was worse we consulted a dictionary and it wasn't there, and I was like, I don't care what this dictionary says I have seen this a hundred times, and she scorned me, and I couldn't say, "Dude, you are a biology major who reads Oprah book club books, and you are trying to prove a negative. If I say I have seen this, then I have seen it, and you should just accept it, and I will accept it when you tell me about some new species of fungus," because that would have been rude.
56: And then you said, "Aw, teh pretty"?
I'm actually sad that the consensus is that "pwned" is due to a type for "owned." I wanted it to have a closer connection to "pawned."
I will surmise, however, that the relationship to "pawned," however fortuitous, is part of its appeal and success.
I couldn't say, "Dude, you are a biology major who reads Oprah book club books, and you are trying to prove a negative. If I say I have seen this, then I have seen it, and you should just accept it, and I will accept it when you tell me about some new species of fungus," because that would have been rude.
I'm not understanding why you didn't say exactly that. Roo... Reu...?
61 -- Hey, what a coincidence! I'm a Goldmund -- let's get together!
Paper submitted! Weirdly, the APA online submission site did not 404 or otherwise suck in any way.
57: Ain't no unclosed tag there; "sure" is italicized for emphasis, the rest is italicized because it's a quote. See how the question mark isn't italicized? pwned!
And now off to BBQ and beer, for which I'm dreadfully late. (And I'll worry about the grading I have to do and the exam I have to write up later.)
63: His tubing communicates vibration with a minimum of distortion, IYKWIM.
pwned!
My birthday gift to you, Weiner.
thanks for demonstrating, everybody!
ha, so many things on unfogged are clearer now.
26, 27, 29: nope, never heard of it.
