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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: beet1e on January 30, 2004, 09:10:38 AM
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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??? :confused:
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)
Look at the errors in that sentence - missing capital letter at the start of sentence, "English" not capitalised, and a split infinitive. :rolleyes: 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". :lol
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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?:)
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"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?
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Ahem.
It's "pwned." Get it right, n00b.
-- Todd/Leviathn
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It means more than just superiority. It is: to be taken, abused, and discarded disdainfully. ;)
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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
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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....
(http://www.johnlennon.it/beatles%20pics/beatles-ciao.jpg)
:D
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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? :p
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 (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=owned). 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"... :D
Westy - nah, two of them are brown bread with a wooden overcoat...
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Curly the walking Webster.. ;)
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Originally posted by beet1e
Ooooer! Feelings still running high? :p
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 (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=owned). 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"... :D
Westy - nah, two of them are brown bread with a wooden overcoat...
1 a : to have or hold as property : POSSESS b : to have power over :
Maybe this will help you out.
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(http://mywebpage.netscape.com/gfly1spam/babyowned.gif)
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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.
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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. :D
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pwn3d, b10tch
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http://www.urbandictionary.com
gives you definitions for slang terms used today.
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pwned
40 votes
MEANING:
The past tense of the word "pwn," which means "to kick the bellybutton of (an opponent)."
HISTORY:
Contrary to popular belief, "pwned" did not originate in Warcraft. A top Quake player mispelled "owned" and the term quickly spread to less players and eventually to nearly the entire population of online gamers. The word is usually used in online FPS and RTS games.
USAGE:
Pwned is often said to an individual's lesser opponent after the greater person or team has defeated his enemy.
Can also be used when verbal superiority is shown in an arguement, for instance, on a video or computer game message board/forum.
"My archers pwned your wyvern, noob."
"Clan AIC just pwned you mother ****ers."
(After delivering a perfect arguement):
"PWNED ***** GGTHNXNORE"
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Good link Pfunk.
owned
49 votes
1. The act of defeating another player in a computer game.
2. Used to add more kick to a comeback.
can also be used as izowned but never pwned...that is a l4m3r usage of the word.
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It is no longer the "english" language. It is american.
Some of it good, some of it bad, but always changing.
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Originally posted by Rude
FYI....the term owned is 20 years old here in the states....nothing new to us.
Its new to me. I didn't see it on a regular basis until I started hanging out on the AH boards. It probably has its origination in the video game community.
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Originally posted by gofaster
Its new to me. I didn't see it on a regular basis until I started hanging out on the AH boards. It probably has its origination in the video game community.
According to Pfunk, that's exactly where it originates. The cap fits, perfectly, and Rude probably still has a callous on his middle finger from playing PacMan. :lol
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Originally posted by gofaster
Its new to me. I didn't see it on a regular basis until I started hanging out on the AH boards. It probably has its origination in the video game community.
I thought owned was a surf thing (own the wave), then pwned came from early fps's (which had to be multiplayer, and have a chat bar so that the misspelling could occur).
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If you're standing in a jail cell, and the big man says I owned you boy, does he mean:
1.) The act of defeating another player in a computer game. Please lets finish our game of online chess, it's my move?
2.) Used to add more kick to a comeback. On his left forearm is a tatoo, "I got life, I will own...all of you"?
3.) To have or hold as property. Or, your bellybutton is mine sucka? :confused:
Thorns
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beetle is getting old :lol
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getting?
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omfgpwned!
It just rolls off the fingers.
-- Todd/Leviathn
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(http://www.innercite.com/~sunking/owned-stallowned.jpg)
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Like everything else, language is always changing.
One of the most serious problems is the confusion caused by totally reversing meanings, e.g., "bad" as "good" (That's bad, man -- admiring a new jacket).
This is a traditional objection to slang, the most danger being when a new generation comes along and has no idea what the local meaning was back then.
Hence history even in the same language becomes a confusing ordeal of trying not only to interpret but translate "what the captain meant to say."
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
beetle is getting old :lol
LOL Grünherz! and SOB. :D I'm old, but I'm still thinner than both of you lardbutts! :lol:p
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Originally posted by beet1e
LOL Grünherz! and SOB. :D I'm old, but I'm still thinner than both of you lardbutts! :lol:p
just a little maybe
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Originally posted by beet1e
LOL Grünherz! and SOB. :D I'm old, but I'm still thinner than both of you lardbutts! :lol:p
You are wasting away at your old age, no doubt of that. :lol
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I think I'm safe. Lazs is even thinner than me, and older too!
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Originally posted by beet1e
I think I'm safe. Lazs is even thinner than me, and older too!
Lazs is what, 25, 26?
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25 times 26 maybe
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bastardisation of the English language
Now there's an ironic statement. If there was ever a bastard language, English is it.
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World War Two (urbandictionary.com)
Hitler's war where Germany was pwnzing all of Europe. Eventually Hitler started taking dope and made a bunch of stupid errors to prevent us from all speaking German. Errors such as:
1. When he could've defeated the British, he thought it'd be funny to bomb the British civilians then suddenly stop.
2. He wanted some Japanese School Girls and some of their l33t TVs so he allied with some random country across the world who was picking fights with America.
3. He thought Italy and Mussolini could actually do something in defending their country. If they could barely defeat Ethiopia, I wouldn't trust them against the frigging Americans.
4. He forgot how crazy the Russians are. If they burn their land, and have a strategy of "once the guy infront of you dies, pick up his gun and put your ammo in", i'd think twice about attacking them. Anyways he pissed alot of troops in Stalingrad, (some epic battle where annoying sniper maps are created in the WW2 FPS's).
4 (part 2). He didn't bring friggin' winter coats to Russia. That dope must be screwing around with Hitler.
5. Thought hollywood was real and was convinced D-Day was at Calais. Didn't back up the Normandy beaches or light any oil fires. Forgot machine gunners could run out of ammo. Oh, and he was sleeping from his drugs THROUGH D-Day.
The moral of the lesson is to not smoke dope. And read up on WW2. People died for you.
1. Some important war that ended the depression (1939) and created the baby boom (1950+) and later good rock music (1960+). And people actually want no wars.
2. Another war where France lasted just as long as Poland (who at least TRIED to attack with horsemen)
3. A war between the so called "evil", although our "ally" the Russians have killed more of its own people. But the death of a million is only a statistic, eh?