[Fictionary] New Word: latten

[Nicolas Ward]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Ellen Sasse <ellen.sasse at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- 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;-)
>

I usually hear "pownt" (p and t tacked onto "own"), or if people are
being silly, more like "punt". Similar to people who say "plix" or
"plox" to emphasize/mock the please -> plz -> plx shortening + typo.

I was unaware "poon" had a sexual connotation... I thought it was just
a nonsense word.

--Nick