Own
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“God is owned”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche on ownage
“im a jegex mod so tell me your ******** or i will own u get u banned go to rs auto cheats . ***”
~ SOME GUY on RuneScape
this is dumb A frequent misspelling of the Welsh word pwn (to utterly humiliate your opponent in a most embarrassing way), probably derived from a typo, because of the proximity between the letters p and o on a standard English keyboard.
According to most sources, the word own was first used in 1987, as an in-joke in the computer game "Leisure Suit Larry". In the 90'ies it caught on in the Internet subculture among geeks and gamers, and by now it has become a mainstream substitute for pwn.
