I was a kid during the heyday of l33t so of course it became my personality...but I can't say I remember anyone using |_| in place of U. Was that really a thing?
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No way, too time consuming to type
I was going to reference this MegaTokyo comic I thought was hilarious at the time but after looking it up, it seems to have defeated my original point
No not really
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You don’t pronounce the p in pwn?
Everybody I know always has, but it still rhymes with 'own'
Hell nah
That's been debated for as long as I can remember. I do, but many don't.
It’s a regional dialect.
An Albany expression.
Pooooon !
"my little pwnies"? Yes.
"OMG, I just got pwned"? No.