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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(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.
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.
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?
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.
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...?
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.)
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.
Posted by John Tingley | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 11:46 AM
That's about it.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 11:47 AM
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.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 11:56 AM
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?).
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 12:12 PM
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.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 12:20 PM
Speaking of teh ghey or whatever we're supposed to call it around here: two-man luge.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 12:21 PM
When I read JO's 5, I thought... pron? how did we get to pr0n? it's only comment number 5!
discuss.
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 12:25 PM
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.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 12:28 PM
The bonus man gives you extra precision where you need it most.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 12:31 PM
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'.
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 12:35 PM
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.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 12:39 PM
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!)
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 12:44 PM
I'm sure I don't know what you mean, MAE. The bonus man is the subwoofer in the Dolby Surround of luge.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 12:47 PM
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.
Posted by Jon McGee | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 12:59 PM
I've always pronounced 'pwned'
I pronounce it like "pawned," but without the a.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 1:05 PM
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.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 1:13 PM
pwned while discussing the word 'pwned'
Touche.
Posted by Jon McGee | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 1:26 PM
Apropos.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 1:35 PM
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.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 1:37 PM
Perhaps that is the sibling corollary to my SI swimsuit edition theory.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 1:38 PM
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.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 1:49 PM
I think you meant, "Saying 'WTF' rather than 'fuck' is not for me."
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 1:50 PM
I've been knopw to say pron, pwn, pwnzored, andfuxxored out loud. Teh may also have slipped out once in a while.
Posted by Chopper | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 1:55 PM
Tim, you don't understand. Internet acronyms are qualitatively different from fruit salad.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 1:55 PM
I was always taught not to "ess-ay-wye" fuck around the childrens.
Posted by Redcane | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:00 PM
(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.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:00 PM
What's CCMC?
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:01 PM
27: What is that, like, Socratic trolling?
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:04 PM
Cry, Cry, Matriculate, Cry
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:04 PM
Nice. I didn't know it was a blogospheric convention.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:13 PM
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.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:16 PM
It's from an Onion infographic, but its widespread usage here can be credited to Kotsko.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:19 PM
This gets dragged out every so often, but it's originally from an Onion inforgraphic on how single people are spending Valentine's day.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:20 PM
Or, what apo said but misspelled.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:21 PM
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?
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:29 PM
"Signs I spend too much time on the internet" s/b "Hahaha, losers, I got lilies."
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:30 PM
"lilies" s/b "herpes"
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:31 PM
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.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:32 PM
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.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:32 PM
37: No, that was a few days ago.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 2:37 PM
I'm feeling abused today. At least Alameida's subconscious loves me.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 3:01 PM
We kid because we love, Tia.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 3:03 PM
My daughter often says "double u t f" to avoid swearing, at the dinner table, say. We tolerate it. Why not?
Posted by John Tingley | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 3:09 PM
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.
Posted by mmf! | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 4:13 PM
Here ya go.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 4:16 PM
pwned.
Weiner-pwned = beaten to essentially the same comment.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 4:16 PM
"p" is right next to "o" on your querty keyboard, mmf!
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 4:16 PM
Like that.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 4:16 PM
What's it called when Weiner is pwned and then someone else, say me, is pwned by Weiner?
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 4:17 PM
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?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 4:18 PM
49: Weiner-pwned Weiner Weiner-pwns one.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 4:20 PM
No, but I'll eat your BBQ and drink your beer.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 4:20 PM
And that's not a euphemism.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 4:21 PM
Leaving me with a few more hours to work on the paper? Sweet!
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 4:21 PM
53: Are you sure?
Cheney told Hume he had BBQ and a beer at lunch. (That should be an interesting point of discussion.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 5:17 PM
Here's what I really meant when I said I got lilies.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 5:29 PM
I say, from observation and experience, that not closing a comment's italics tag reduces its shazam by 50%.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 5:32 PM
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.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 5:45 PM
56: And then you said, "Aw, teh pretty"?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 5:48 PM
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.
Posted by John Tingley | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 5:59 PM
59: After all, I am a narcissus.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 6:04 PM
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...?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 6:06 PM
61 -- Hey, what a coincidence! I'm a Goldmund -- let's get together!
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 6:19 PM
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.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-15-06 6:35 PM
63: His tubing communicates vibration with a minimum of distortion, IYKWIM.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 02-16-06 7:22 AM
pwned!
My birthday gift to you, Weiner.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 02-16-06 8:08 AM
thanks for demonstrating, everybody!
ha, so many things on unfogged are clearer now.
Posted by mmf! | Link to this comment | 02-16-06 8:31 AM
26, 27, 29: nope, never heard of it.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 02-16-06 10:04 AM