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Originally Posted by ken0042
I think that's what the kids these days are saying in place of "owned."
To use it in a sentance "On Thursday the Predators pwnt the Flames."
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Quite.
I believe it was made popular in the days of Counter-Strike prior to voice-chat, when players would have to quickly type out their sentences and not correct their spelling for fear of getting killed. Since the P and the O are right next to each other on the QWERTY keyboard, it quickly caught on as a common mis-spelling and has been a phenom ever since.
I imagine the 't' at the end was used to swap out the 'ed' in order to make it only 4 letters long instead of 5.