[Fictionary] New Word: latten

[lindafowens at netzero.com]

I used to think that "Owens", my last name since I married 42 years ago, was free from being turned into a "swear word", unlike most names that were vulnerable; but one day some tough little girls (4-6 years old) in our neighborhood sat on a railroad tie by the basketball hoop, their Big Wheels parked nearby, and chanted at my older boys: "Owens duh Wo-wens!" to their chagrin and embarrassment. Linda  PS  The name should be Owen without the S but was added as D's grandfather came through immigration at Boston.  He was Welsh, and the immigration officer was probably Irish.

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Nicolas Ward <ultranurd at gmail.com>
To: fictionary at swarpa.net
Subject: Re: [Fictionary] New Word: latten
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:29:16 -0500

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
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