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Originally Posted by Alphapheemail
You make a good point. Since I see it everyday, it's almost like a english dialiect. But you're right one should modify thier language in respect to thier target audience. But because one person does not understand what is said does not make the "language" invalid or non existant. The reality is that words like pwnd are here to stay since the internet community becomes larger and the "net lingo" is seeping into the "meat lingo". ( meat being real life)
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I've been curious about pwned since I first learned about it. Now that I've heard the offensive-language-filter circumvention story, I'm even starting to like the word. I love interesting word origins and evolutions, even when you have to guess which ones are true and which ones are apocryphal.