Comments on: Hi-de-ho hepcats or slang!

By: Scott C.

Scott C. — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:41:28 +0000

I always liked the theory it was a speed based type (ie switching between keyboard and mouse you don’t have time to spell check)

By: nickmamatas

nickmamatas — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:57:17 +0000

I suppose I’d instantly accept that origin story had it been accompanied by a screencap of the typo.

By: TJ W.

TJ W. — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:10:31 +0000

From ‘Urban Dictionary’
Interesting origin, I thought…
1. pwned

A corruption of the word “Owned.” This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled “owned.” When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so “has been owned.”

Instead, it said, so-and-so “has been pwned.”

It basically means “to own” or to be dominated by an opponent or situation, especially by some god-like or computer-like force.
“Man, I rock at my job, but I still got a bad evaluation. I was pwned.”

“That team totally pwned us.”
by Daniel Rivera Apr 11, 2003

By: John G.

John G. — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:59:17 +0000

Sorry, no. No one who texts “wtfpwned” knows the difference between “you’re” and “your”.

By: nickmamatas

nickmamatas — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:59:49 +0000

Well, one of them is actually RPing a ninja character with elevated dialect (to the bemusement of the other characters). Be sure to buy two copies—one to read and the other to annotate in the margin and submit to me if we reprint!

By: Avram

Avram — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:51:02 +0000

But no complaints about the unrealistically correct orthography in the rest of the texting?

By: Julia S.

Julia S. — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:31:36 +0000

All his base are now belong to you.