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I still remember "pwned" as a misspelling of "owned." Then of course there were all the other l33t spellings, but pwnd seemed to be the one most specifically ab
by SamBam 2y ago
I still remember "pwned" as a misspelling of "owned." Then of course there were all the other l33t spellings, but pwnd seemed to be the one most specifically about mistyping. Gen-Zers sometimes end statements with "Periodt." They also have lots of other phonetic ones, like "rizz," but that's more about the phonetics and less about the humor in misspelling.
- andoando 2y agoI never connected that pwned was a mispelling of owned, I always thought it was a word of its own.
- emmelaich 2y agoMore of a typo than a spello in the sense that P is next to O on the qwerty keyboard so gets hit occasionally, especially in the tense rush of online gaming. Similar to zomg, because z is next to the shift key and they were going for OMG.
- hunter2_ 2y agoAnd then there's this!1!!eleven Apparently due to intermittent shifting of 1 into an exclamation point, occasionally yielding multiple 1s, which can look like a random eleven, which is humorous to skip to directly.