Author Topic: Owned (Read 1706 times)

beet1e · « **on:** January 30, 2004, 09:10:38 AM »

I don't think I can be alone in having noticed that a new word has entered the AH vernacular, or at least a new meaning to an existing word. "Owned", which has come to mean "superior to" or "better than". Thus, if A is better than B, it is said that A owns B or that B is owned by A.

WTF???

OK, guys. What I need to know is which teen comic book, net-tard website, or wankbag TV programme would I need to have been aware of to understand this new vogue meaning of the word "owned", without having to ask here? Remember, I come from a time when "gay" used to mean happy and cheerful, and nothing more, so spell it out to me.

Why the need to invent new meanings for existing words? Could it be that the perpetrators of this bastardisation of the English language have an inadequate command of same, and must therefore resort to reinventing words?

I've noticed that Mr. SmartAlec himself uses the newly invented meaning of "owned". And yet, in an earlier thread he had the temerity to say (of me)

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Look at the errors in that sentence - missing capital letter at the start of sentence, "English" not capitalised, and a split infinitive.

If that's not the pot calling the kettle black, then I don't know what is. Looks like Mr. SA (and he knows who he is) got "owned".

Rude · « **Reply #1 on:** January 30, 2004, 09:13:56 AM »

FYI....the term owned is 20 years old here in the states....nothing new to us.

Liken your lack of understanding regarding this term to that of your lack of understanding regarding Furballers, air to air combat and having fun....makin things more clear now?

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 30, 2004, 09:22:32 AM »

"Owned", "leet", "woot", "ding".

These are the "bad", "sweet", "rule", "cha-ching", "totally" of today for me. What, your generation never had its own vocabulary when you were young?

Dead Man Flying · « **Reply #3 on:** January 30, 2004, 09:24:22 AM »

Ahem.

It's "pwned." Get it right, n00b.

-- Todd/Leviathn

AKIron · « **Reply #4 on:** January 30, 2004, 09:30:35 AM »

It means more than just superiority. It is: to be taken, abused, and discarded disdainfully.

1K0N · « **Reply #5 on:** January 30, 2004, 09:34:26 AM »

Heard the term owned in late 90's from the Starcraft dweebs, usually had to do with getting bum rushed by a team in the first few minutes of the game with a superior build order....

Just a thought doens't mean it is correct.... Could apply to anything now..

IKON

Westy · « **Reply #6 on:** January 30, 2004, 09:40:37 AM »

I imagine it'd be damn near impossible to bring someone who's still stuck in 1964 up to speed. When the use of "fab" is still a major part of your vernacular and the guys below are still your dippity-doo, hippest icons well....

beet1e · « **Reply #7 on:** January 30, 2004, 09:50:56 AM »

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Originally posted by Rude
FYI....the term owned is 20 years old here in the states....nothing new to us.

Liken your lack of understanding regarding this term to that of your lack of understanding regarding Furballers, air to air combat and having fun....makin things more clear now?

Ooooer! Feelings still running high?

Well, I checked in http://www.dictionary.com (a site made known to me by Mr. SA himself) and the meanings for "owned" can be found here. And I can't see anything that means "superior". It's not in Cassell's Dictionary of Slang either.

Totally? Tony Blair came up with "totality"...

Westy - nah, two of them are brown bread with a wooden overcoat...

Sway · « **Reply #8 on:** January 30, 2004, 10:05:31 AM »

Curly the walking Webster..

Rude · « **Reply #9 on:** January 30, 2004, 10:18:44 AM »

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Originally posted by beet1e
Ooooer! Feelings still running high?

Well, I checked in http://www.dictionary.com (a site made known to me by Mr. SA himself) and the meanings for "owned" can be found here. And I can't see anything that means "superior". It's not in Cassell's Dictionary of Slang either.

Totally? Tony Blair came up with "totality"...

Westy - nah, two of them are brown bread with a wooden overcoat...

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1 a : to have or hold as property : POSSESS b : to have power over :

Maybe this will help you out.

loser · « **Reply #10 on:** January 30, 2004, 10:22:35 AM »

PVV|\|3|>!

Octavius · « **Reply #11 on:** January 30, 2004, 10:25:11 AM »

rpm · « **Reply #12 on:** January 30, 2004, 10:27:15 AM »

Before you go raining on us bloody Yanks, perhaps you should take a rest in the old pickle and hair, grab a studmuffin and watch the birds on the telly.

beet1e · « **Reply #13 on:** January 30, 2004, 10:33:45 AM »

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Originally posted by Rude
Maybe this will help you out.

...and maybe not. I don't think that's from the http://www.dictionary.com site that I referred to.

I love the indignation that some people exhibit in threads like this.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 30, 2004, 11:11:01 AM »

pwn3d, b10tch