I find it quite amusing - but then, some would call me easily amused, I'm sure.
Whatever its origins, it's certainly gained widespread currency as a result of online gaming.
Edit: I agree with mistersloane, "pwned" (rhymes with "boned") has a pleasing ring to it too. And can be used to construct a watertight form of logical argument: modus pwnens.
+1. Think about this alot. Like language being made up entirely up of mistakes.I quite like the pwned one though, I like the idea of mistakes becoming vernacular, regardless of their inherent meaning.
The idea of pwned/pwnd is that you don't pronounce the P in spoken language (it's said simply as owned), the P is entirely a written vernacular.
how do you feel about "sonned" woebot.
actually now that i know it has its roots in gaming (nerdy) it bothers me a lot less. i thought it was gang slanguage. kind of like capitalism infects everything (see Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism book)
being that it originated from an error can we really say there is an idea behind it?
being that it originated from an error can we really say there is an idea behind it?
come to think of it, i also wonder why a gaming origin of the word makes Woebot feel better about it than if it came from street gangs. surely both would equally be cases of capitalism infecting everything?
capitalism infects everything (see Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism book)