Comments on: Speaking Teenager

By: Aurelia

Aurelia — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:23:36 +0000

Or how about the newest thing with texting. So now our kids say things like OMG, or IDK, or whatev….

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:28:11 +0000

My boys say this ALL the time (pwnd or pwnage) and I didn’t know it actually had an origin or a definition above what THEY think it means. When I’ve tried to spell it so that pronounciation is implied, I’ve used “ponage”. I actually prefer this now since apparently it’s taked from “owned” or “ownage”. Man, this makes much more sense now when I hear “I totally pwned you”. This keeps me with a few steps of being on the same page with them instead of being in the next zip code most the time!

By: Jeri

Jeri — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:45:24 +0000

I can’t even figure out how to pronounce “pwned!” Go figure…

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By: bill

bill — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:09:19 +0000

Far out!

By: joe bruzzese

joe bruzzese — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:51:43 +0000

Talking with a friend, he shared the same challenge. “I’m lucky,” he said, “to get monosyllabic utterances (s’up and nah)”. Yes, I’m in agreement with you. The language is changing. Found an interesting post about text messaging and learning the language here: http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/01/look_mom_you_can_text_too.html

By: Murray

Murray — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:39:35 +0000

Don’t worry, it’s not that new. It is gamer/internet slang.

pwned is a deliberate misspelling of Owned. more detail here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwned. Several myths as to it’s origin.

noob or newbie is generally derogatory term for new or inexperienced players. Used mostly in online multi player games. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noob it may have been used in the Vietnam War.