Street slang dissed - how I feel when I see that "owned/pwn3d/l33t" rubbish

[2Slow]

What can I say?  Signature says it all.

[ravells]

I like the fact that English is continually evolving as a language, and what a flexible language it is too. This evolution keeps the language vibrant because it imports new ideas into onto our mental maps. How boring it would be if we were still using the vocabulary and grammatical structures of our forefathers!

New words are often borrowed or minted because there are no existing words to satisfactorily describe the item or concept, and I think that 'Owned' or 'Pwned' does this really well.

I don't think we have an existing word in English which quite describes that feeling of domination and the fact that one's opponent is entirely within one's thrall.

Mark my words, years from today Judges, when sentencing criminals will say, 'Mr Biggs, you shall be sentenced to twenty years. Owned!'

Policians will stand up at the dispatch box at question time and say:

Mr. Eric Forth (Bromley and Chislehurst) (Con) : The Leader of the House is fond of boasting, as he did today, about Ministers who come to the House to answer questions, but he has neglected to say that when Ministers give answers, they are either inadequate or non-existent. Will he conduct an exhaustive search throughout the Government to try to find a Minister who gives adequate, straightforward answers to questions in this place? If he finds such a person—I shall be impressed if he can—will that person then conduct a seminar for other Ministers, with the Prime Minister present, so that we might have some hope in the future of getting answers of any kind from Ministers?

Speaker: The Leader of the House has been Pwned!

Ravs

[3dited 4 sp3771ng and gr4mm4r]

[Urchin]

Originally posted by beet1e
... and becoming unemployable in the process.  WTF is that? Where does it come from?!

I think what we see on the Internet is the result rather than the cause of illiteracy. My brother is a secondary school maths teacher and often laments the falling standards he sees. Amongst the many problems in the schools at which he has taught have been the "lad culture". That's the lifestyle in which, for example, it's preferable to hang out on street corners with friends than to complete school homework assignments. Apparently, street corners are "cool", and homework is not. The other problem is an overbearing obsession with mobile telephones. He has had to exclude pupils from lessons for using phones to send text messages during his lessons. The kids hate being excluded because they have to do their lessons in a private room supervised by a teacher. Very uncool!

Mobile phones, yea I'll agree that is a problem.  Wasn't really when I was in high school, but apparently now you are allowed to have them if you don't *talk* on them.  So you can set in class and IM your friends.  We werent even allowed to have them at all.  Homework sucks pretty big, however.. if I could go back into the past to high school... I'd bust my bellybutton now.  I was always a pretty lackluster student, trying to change that now.

And I wish cell phones weren't allowed in class, or at least not if you are to stupid to keep it on vibrate only.  Mine is always on, even in class, just in case... but it is always on vibrate so it won't go off in the middle of a lecture.  Honest to God that happens at least once a day.

btw, "1337-speak" is pretty much just replacing letters with numbers or symbols.  Once you get the hang of reading it, it is no problem at all.

[straffo]

Just to stir the pot ... it come from someone having beet1e as handle

Because B33tl3 was not availlable ?

[B17Skull12]

I Never hear the word Pwned anywhere except the internet.

and i go to high school where slang is used.

[Morpheus]

Beetle just needs something to gripe about:rolleyes:


Must suck to get old eh?

[Wlfgng]

Must suck to get old eh?

oh I see.. YOU aren't going to get old    

[Reschke]

Originally posted by beet1e
[BThe other problem is an overbearing obsession with mobile telephones. He has had to exclude pupils from lessons for using phones to send text messages during his lessons. The kids hate being excluded because they have to do their lessons in a private room supervised by a teacher. Very uncool! [/B]

The day my son's get "excluded" from their classes for using a mobile (cell phone) for anything during school hours will be the day I throughly come unglued. A cell phone is for use when you are away from the home and not when you are in school/business meeting/business lunch/dinner with the family/etc...

[AKIron]

Guess they could always resort to writing combat flight sim software.

[Morpheus]

Originally posted by Wlfgng
oh I see.. YOU aren't going to get old    

24 years young ty

I see that beetle just misses his lost childhood. Hey, just callilng them as I see em;)