pwnt as past participle of pwn (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Dave Robertson]

More in the reasonably extensive article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet.
There it's pointed out that "-t" is a popular past participle in Leet.

Leetspeak could present some neat problems for lexicographers, given its
nonstandard spellings and character mappings.  But certain Leet expressions
like "pwn" and "teh sex" are undeniably popular, and are widely recognized
in non-Leet spellings.  (That is, without any funny symbols.)

--Dave R  or  )@\/3,
who notes the resemblance of Leet to 1890s typewriter art, as found in The
[Philadelphia] Stenographer magazine.




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> "pwn" is leetspeak for "own", as in "I own you" meaning I have beaten
> you at something that requires skill, or meaning I am superior in some
> manner to you.  Sometimes it's hard to figure out the path from normal
> English to 13375pe4k -- in this case, "pwn" is a typo of "own".
>
> see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwned

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