pwnt as past participle of pwn (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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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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> Well, if no one else is going to ask it, I'll have to. What does "pwn"
> mean and how is it pronounced?
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> -Wilson
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> On 6/18/07, ddr11 <ddr11 at uvic.ca> wrote:
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> > The other day I noticed the past-passive form "got pwnt" instead of
> > "got pwned".  143,000 Google hits.  Has this been noted by
> > lexicographers?  (My stuff is packed for moving, can't check recent
> > 'Among the New Words'.)
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