Pardon me, Sir

by teejaywalker on Oct 28, 2009 11:43 AM EDT

Must say I've enjoyed this blog for well over a year now, good work. However, I've yet to understand what is the word 'pwnage' Yeah, I laugh when I see it and I think I know the general context. But I'd like the official explanationa and a little history wouldn't hurt either.

Dear god I need more wordage, I love my mother and bunnies. My nickname in college was 'the natural'- broad athletic ability in many sportages, thank you. Is that enough?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn

by Jeff Junstrom on Oct 28, 2009 11:48 AM EDT reply actions

pwn

See the link Junny put up.

I believe the o is replaced with a p to mock the idiots on the internet who type faster than they think and hit the p button instead of the o button. It’s the same reason why sometimes you will see the intentional type “teh” as in “The Buckeyes are teh suck!”

Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

by BSD on Oct 28, 2009 11:55 AM EDT reply actions

How fitting

There are two typos in my response.

Mike
Black Shoe Diaries

by BSD on Oct 28, 2009 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions

For example of usage of pwn in a sentence:

BSD Mike just pwned himself.

by dawsonPSU10 on Oct 28, 2009 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions

I've read it about 5 times and I can only find one typo.

by PSUisMyHeart on Oct 28, 2009 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions

I think the second typo is actually a result of the first typo

he said “the intentional” but meant “them intentionally”. “the” probably threw off his brain for a second, making him forget to add the “ally”

by The JuggerNitt on Oct 29, 2009 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions

That would indeed make sense

by PSUisMyHeart on Oct 29, 2009 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions

I thought it also had origins in Asian based, English language gaming of the 1980's

Sort of how “All your base are belong to us” came into being.

by Jeff Junstrom on Oct 28, 2009 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions

As your wiki link notes

it’s really more from gamers (wiki notes CounterStrike, I’ve always given a nod to the Warcraft series). Some of the typos are due to fast fingers, others were due to fat fingers – all them are now running jokes.

Included in the list is the intentional usage of a ‘1’ in the midst of a line of exclamation points, as in, “You are teh suck”

All Your Base really set off the idea of creating videos of strange foreign songs, with various products/pictures depicting the words.

"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

by IcersGuy on Oct 28, 2009 12:15 PM EDT up reply actions

that's one of the downfalls of the autoformatting on here

we lose the beauty of exclamation marks and 1’s intermingling, and instead it always thinks we want to post image named 111oneone1one111

by The JuggerNitt on Oct 29, 2009 3:31 PM EDT up reply actions

Indeed

there are times I wish SbN would stick with the basic HTML.

"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

by IcersGuy on Oct 29, 2009 8:11 PM EDT up reply actions

Pwnage

+1 cocktail to you sir

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"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."

by Roland86 on Oct 28, 2009 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions

I think it originally came from

someone in an online game misspelling “own”.
It means the same thing (ie: “He got owned/domainted”) except to a higher degree.
According to PurePwnage.com, it is still pronounced “ownage”.

by GreatScawt on Oct 28, 2009 12:11 PM EDT reply actions

Custom WarCraft 2 map

If you’ve played the map, you’re an official citizen of the Internet. Wikipedia is great but Urban Dictionary on the whole tends to be more accurate about slang words, for obvious sourcing reasons.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwn

Careful what you search for though as many definitions are NSFW.

by gumbercules on Oct 28, 2009 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions