[Fictionary] New Word: latten

[Ellen Sasse]

--- On Mon, 12/14/09, Josh Smift <irilyth at infersys.com> wrote:
> NW> pwnt, v. Gaming slang. Simple past form of "pwn", to beat by a large margin
> NW> - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pwn
> NW> * My hope that it would be mistaken for Welsh worked on a number of
> NW> you, but there are too many other gamers on the list :oP.
>
> I am hopeful that this word (and its variants) will come to be pronounced
> as if it were a Welsh word.

I am all for Welsh (it's a beautiful language; even Welsh-accented English is beautiful), but if you pronounce "pwn" with Welsh pronunciation, it's entirely too similar to a word that was disrespectful slang for one of the distinguishing features of the female anatomy, at least when I was growing up;-)





      
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