Editing Leet (section)

====Owned and pwned====
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[[File:Laugh-Out-Loud Cats 736.jpg|thumb|An example of the term ''pwned'' in a'' [[Laugh-Out-Loud Cats]]'' comic strip]]
''Owned'' and ''pwned'' (generally pronounced "poned"<ref name="mw">[https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/pwn-what-it-means-and-how-you-say-it Merriam-Webster: What Does 'Pwn' Mean? And how do you say it?]</ref> [pʰo͡ʊnd]) both refer to the domination of a player in a video game or argument (rather than just a win), or the successful hacking of a website or computer.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/pub-inf_4395.pdf |title=Pwned – 10 Tales of Appropriation in Video Games|author= Pichlmair, Martin}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Computer Slang |url=http://books.ifmo.ru/book/vip/196.pdf |date=December 9, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209115317/http://books.ifmo.ru/book/vip/196.pdf |archive-date=December 9, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ludlow|first1=Peter|last2=Wallace|first2=Mark|date=2007|title=The Second Life Herald|publisher=MIT Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/secondlifeherald00ludl/page/53 53]|isbn=978-0-262-12294-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/secondlifeherald00ludl/page/53}}</ref><ref name=mitchell/><ref name=dutch/><ref name="blanc32 33">LeBlanc, 32-33.</ref>  It is a slang term derived from the verb ''[[Owned (slang)|own]]'', meaning to appropriate or to conquer to gain ownership. As is a common characteristic of leet, the terms have also been adapted into noun and adjective forms,<ref name=dutch/> ''ownage'' and ''pwnage'', which can refer to the situation of ''pwning'' or to the superiority of its subject (e.g., "He is a very good player. He is pwnage.").

The term was created accidentally by the misspelling of "own" due to the keyboard proximity of the "O" and "P" keys. It implies domination or humiliation of a rival,<ref name=Naone>{{cite news | author=Naone, Erica |date=November 2008| title=The Flaw at the Heart of the Internet| work=[[Technology Review]]| volume=111| number=6| pages= 62–67}}</ref> used primarily in the [[Internet]]-based [[video game culture]] to taunt an opponent who has just been soundly defeated (e.g., "You just got pwned!").<ref>{{cite book | author=Peckham, Aaron |date=2007| title=Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined| publisher= Andrews McMeel Publishing|page=230| isbn=978-0-7407-6875-0}}</ref>  In 2015 [[Scrabble]] added pwn to their Official Scrabble Words list.<ref>{{Cite news | title=Go Forth And Pwn For Shizzle, Word List Guardians Tell Scrabble Players| url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/21/408508565/go-forth-and-pwn-for-shizzle-say-scrabble-word-list-s-guardians| access-date=2020-07-05| newspaper=NPR| date=21 May 2015| language=en| last1=Chappell| first1=Bill}}</ref>