Bevan

Some time in each of our lives we are going to have the opportunity to be on the giving or receiving end of the letters p-w-n. For me, the first experience was back in grade school when I got slapped by a younger kid in front of about 10 other kids. But back then, the letter combination didn’t exist, and so for years I considered the experience simply “humiliating”. Today I look back and realize that I wasn’t just “humiliated”, I was “pwned”.

Until now, there has never been a word in the English language that best describes these types of experiences. But thanks to gamers that frequently dominate or are “owned” by others (and have no qualms about bragging openly), the term “pwn” was born. You pwn, you get pwned, he pwns others, we were pwning, and that’s some serious pwnage.

Let me illustrate the definition of this word with a few visual examples: