I’m loving Long Story Short, a project by Archie McLeish which typographically renders common digital speak acronyms in a decidedly non-digital style.
I’m loving Long Story Short, a project by Archie McLeish which typographically renders common digital speak acronyms in a decidedly non-digital style.
“PWNED” does NOT mean “Perfectly Owned”
The “P” is a deliberate typo used for ironic effect. On its deepest level it is sort of a legacy insult towards script kiddies, but if that sentence doesn’t make sense to you then suffice to say that it is a somewhat self-effacing comment to say that you PWNED someone. You are being self aware and ironic when you pwn.
Maybe people don’t KNOW that anymore and so they aren’t being self-aware or ironic at all, but that’s where it comes from. You are SUPPOSED to be mimicking the retarded assholes on XBOX live or Battle.net or wherever.
Surely LOL is laugh out loud, no?
I thought so too, so I actually looked it up before I posted it. Apparently some people interpret it at Lots of Laughs as well.