Spelling of prOn and pwnt???

[Blu Tiger]

I see people in forums spelling porn like "pr0n" and owned like "pwned". I think it is funny as hell, but I was wondering if anyone new how the origins of these different spellings came about. Just curious.

[Knight-Errant]

Originally Posted by Blu Tiger

I see people in forums spelling porn like "prOn" and owned like "pwnt". I think it is funny as hell, but I was wondering if anyone new how the origins of these different spellings came about. Just curious.

I think they grew out of l33t speak in online games. pwned means owned lol

[Blu Tiger]

Originally Posted by Knight-Errant

I think they grew out of l33t speak in online games. pwned means owned lol

Thank you so much. You were correct. I looked up l33t on google. Here is some interesting info from wikipedia.

Pr0n
Pr0n or pron is Leet slang for pornography.[2] This is a deliberately inaccurate spelling/pronunciation for porn,[22] where a zero is often used to replace the letter O. It is sometimes used in legitimate communications (such as email discussion groups, Usenet, chat rooms, and internet web pages) to circumvent language and content filters, which may reject messages as offensive or spam. The word also helps prevent search engines from associating commercial sites with pornography—which might result in unwelcome traffic. Pr0n is also sometimes spelled backwards (n0rp) to further obscure the meaning to potential uninformed readers.[25] It can also refer to ASCII art depicting pornographic images, or to photos of the internals of consumer and industrial hardware. Prawn, a spoof of the misspelling, has started to come into use, as well; in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a pornographer films his movies on 'Prawn Island'. Conversely, in the RPG Kingdom of Loathing, prawn, referring to a kind of crustacean, is spelled pr0n, leading to the creation of food items such as “pr0n chow mein”.

Owned and Pwned

Owned and pwned both refer to the domination of a player in a video game or argument (rather than just a win), or the successful hacking of a website or computer.[2][16][23] For example, in a multiplayer first-person shooter game, a player with a default starting gun defeats an opponent carrying a vastly superior weapon. This would indicate dominant skill in the player with the inferior weapon, who outplayed (owned or pwned) the player with superior firepower. As in a common characteristic of Leet, the terms have also been adapted into noun and adjective forms,[16] ownage and pwnage, which can refer to the situation of pwning or to the superiority of its subject (e.g., "He is a very good player. He is pwnage."). Some people pronounce pwn as p'own or poon. Since the letter p on a QWERTY keyboard is right next to the letter o, it likely derives from a typographical error of owned,[16] and was eventually embraced by Leetspeakers as an intentional misspelling; however, pwn is also sometimes said to mean "player own" (pwnage could be "player ownage").[24]

[actionhank]

Pwned came out as a typo from owned, notice the "p" and "o" keys on a QWERTY keyboard sit together.

I saw a guy driving a scion xb the other day with "PWNED" as his plate, lol.

[Knight-Errant]

Originally Posted by actionhank

Pwned came out as a typo from owned, notice the "p" and "o" keys on a QWERTY keyboard sit together.

I saw a guy driving a scion xb the other day with "PWNED" as his plate, lol.

haha yeah.

[BTBuck1]

I've also heard "Pwn3d" as meaning POWER OWNAGE! hence, Pwnage for short.

[dialog_gvf]

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