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> A couple summers ago at the pool I heard a teenage girl exclaim “poned!” after besting her friend at something they were playing. It took me a moment to reali
by shasheene 9y ago
> A couple summers ago at the pool I heard a teenage girl exclaim “poned!” after besting her friend at something they were playing. It took me a moment to realize she’d just said “pwned” since I’d never heard it said out loud before and in my mind I’ve always read it “owned.” Now that was a “get off my lawn moment!”
That pronunciation was popularized by the famous South Park episode on World of Warcraft [1] [2] which first aired in 2006. So it's not actually particularly new at all.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPx__G9GkRY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPx__G9GkRY
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Love,_Not_Warcraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Love,_Not_Warcraft
- Balgair 9y agoI'd go with the all time great Canadian Gamer show: PurePwnage, from 2004, as the popularizer of the spoken term. Though it goes back to at least 1999 with the original CounterStrike and the term in text, then read aloud. I remember the shouts of 'pone' in the afterschool computer lounge from friends to at least 1999, if not earlier. http://www.purepwnage.com/ http://www.purepwnage.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Pwnage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Pwnage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn