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[LeoLeonardoIII]

I've never actually said it out loud, but I mentally pronounce the meme doge to rhyme with rogue. Although doge-as-in-Venice is slowly creeping up on me.

I don't mind memes but it's funny to see people get them wrong - a tainted meme if you will. So many people pronounce pwn with a P-sound. It's really just about mis-typing and p/o being close to each other on a keyboard. Pwn is pronounced exactly like own. Of course there are people who grew up after pwn was already popular, and learned it wrong from other people who had a misapprehension concerning its pronunciation.

This was exacerbated by the relative lack of VoIP or in-game voice chat systems when pwn was emerging. If people had been able to hear the pronunciation, they would have been much less likely to learn and transmit a tainted meme. Of course, the timing would have to be perfect. The very reason why pwn emerged was a requirement to type instead of voice chat. If voice chat were around to reduce the incidence of the tainted meme, the meme would have never emerged in the first place. It would have to arrive and circulate, growing strong in people's minds, but then voice chat would need to supersede typed chat during the meme's heyday. There's probably a couple years where that could have happened.

There were also people making videos purposefully mispronouncing it to make fun of people mispronouncing it - and in some cases perhaps the video producer was actually operating under a tainted meme and was earnest, or else simply making fun of internet gamers without understanding the actual meme.

That's not to say a meme can't change: putting your own spin on it is half the point of a meme. But the other half is transmitting it with an understanding of it. If you're simply ignorant or were given a tainted meme, you can't be doing more than half the job.

As a person who was around when the meme started, I tell you: if you pronounce it "pohn" because you think that's how it's pronounced, you have a tainted meme and you should stop spreading your version.

[Levi]

son who was around when the meme started, I tell you: if you pronounce it "pohn" because you think that's how it's pronounced, you have a tainted meme and you should stop spreading your version.

I pronounce it as "Pawn" like the chess piece, because it drives my roommate mad.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

They should make a reality TV show about rural farmers trying to outdo each other, from planting to bringing the harvest to market, called Corn Stars.

[GlyphGryph]

Yeah, I was always under the impression that mispronouncing it was ... kind of the point. You can't misspell a word verbally, so if you say it right it's not the meme anymore! You've got to pronounce it differently from "own" or you're just doing it right!

[Sirus]

They should make a reality TV show about rural farmers trying to outdo each other, from planting to bringing the harvest to market, called Corn Stars.

Alternatively, a show about the life and times of several brass instrument musicians, possibly all in one band.

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Horn Stars

[LeoLeonardoIII]

A show about a bunch of Toyotas, each painted to look like a lamb that just had a haircut.

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Shorn Cars

[Sirus]

A show that explores run-down drinking establishments all over the country, one which barely stay in business and only the regulars know or care where it is.

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Worn Bars

[MonkeyHead]

A show about deer giving birth and raising thier young...

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Fawn Stars

[RedWarrior0]

So apparently there's going to be a Magic: The Gathering movie. Whether or not it'll be any good is not quite known. I honestly don't expect much.

[scrdest]

I've never actually said it out loud, but I mentally pronounce the meme doge to rhyme with rogue. Although doge-as-in-Venice is slowly creeping up on me.

I don't mind memes but it's funny to see people get them wrong - a tainted meme if you will. So many people pronounce pwn with a P-sound. It's really just about mis-typing and p/o being close to each other on a keyboard. Pwn is pronounced exactly like own. Of course there are people who grew up after pwn was already popular, and learned it wrong from other people who had a misapprehension concerning its pronunciation.

This was exacerbated by the relative lack of VoIP or in-game voice chat systems when pwn was emerging. If people had been able to hear the pronunciation, they would have been much less likely to learn and transmit a tainted meme. Of course, the timing would have to be perfect. The very reason why pwn emerged was a requirement to type instead of voice chat. If voice chat were around to reduce the incidence of the tainted meme, the meme would have never emerged in the first place. It would have to arrive and circulate, growing strong in people's minds, but then voice chat would need to supersede typed chat during the meme's heyday. There's probably a couple years where that could have happened.

There were also people making videos purposefully mispronouncing it to make fun of people mispronouncing it - and in some cases perhaps the video producer was actually operating under a tainted meme and was earnest, or else simply making fun of internet gamers without understanding the actual meme.

That's not to say a meme can't change: putting your own spin on it is half the point of a meme. But the other half is transmitting it with an understanding of it. If you're simply ignorant or were given a tainted meme, you can't be doing more than half the job.

As a person who was around when the meme started, I tell you: if you pronounce it "pohn" because you think that's how it's pronounced, you have a tainted meme and you should stop spreading your version.

I quite like to pronounce it without any vowels, just like how it's spelled.

[Frumple]

So apparently there's going to be a Magic: The Gathering movie. Whether or not it'll be any good is not quite known. I honestly don't expect much.

... any idea what it's going to be based off of? MtG's got some pretty decent lore (in places, anyway) and quite solid books, in all honesty. There's room for some impressive stuff. Just depends on how badly the box office mangles it. I wouldn't exactly mind see the brother's war brought to film, yeah? Get some clockwork up in, yo'.

[RedWarrior0]

http://company.wizards.com/content/twentieth-century-fox-and-hasbro-develop-magic-gathering-new-film-franchise

There's a bit of a mention of stories from the franchise's past or something, so Brothers' War actually might have a shot.

[Bauglir]

So apparently there's going to be a Magic: The Gathering movie. Whether or not it'll be any good is not quite known. I honestly don't expect much.

... any idea what it's going to be based off of? MtG's got some pretty decent lore (in places, anyway) and quite solid books, in all honesty. There's room for some impressive stuff. Just depends on how badly the box office mangles it. I wouldn't exactly mind see the brother's war brought to film, yeah? Get some clockwork up in, yo'.

Fox just bought the rights, that's all we know. As far as I know, it's not even in development, but I will say that this is exactly the sort of spinoff thing I'm sure WotC had in mind when they decided to retire Oldwalkers for the new, not-omnipotent, kind.

I'm dumb and need to read links in ninjas before I post.

EDIT: If Jace appears as anything but an antagonist I will be pissed.

[Vorthon]

On that whole meme tangent: When you think about it, languages are just really, really complex memes, in a way. If you're going by the 'ideas that spread like viruses' thing.

[Dutchling]

On that whole meme tangent: When you think about it, languages are just really, really complex memes, in a way. If you're going by the 'ideas that spread like viruses' thing.

Genes. Memes are ideas that spread like genes. Except there's talking and singing and writing instead of throbbing.