Originally posted by: Uchiha Barles
Oh dear god. I tried to stay out of this (maybe I should've tried harder). Alright, as far as I know, the phrase "I owned you" is used as a sort of slang to say "I beat you", "I defeated you", "I won", etc. If someone says, "he owned you", it's not difficult to figure the meaning from what I just said. Personally, I take no offense to that. The term as used in a sentence like cmdr's has absolutely nothing to do with ownership. If I'm gonna take offense to anything, it's to the fact that I got owned, beat, defeated, I lost, etc. Even then, I'd have no one to blame but myself. Let me ask you a question. Would you have been less offended if he said "Wow, Dazz put up a good argument and in my opinion, Hokage IV failed to respond in a manner that would make him be the victor of this discussion."? If your answer is no, then, you're really being way too sensitive. Because, both those statements pretty much mean the same thing.
You can soften the word all you want, but there is a difference in words that will make someone offended or not. Would I be offended if he said dazz(?) put good argument and I failed ? no.. why would I? but thats not what he said. Would a African guy get offended saying hes black? or Would he get offended if you called him a Niigger?

owned can mean beat, defeat.. all the soft words.. but it can also mean, possesion, possesion of a person? like what ? slave? bitch?


puhlease..

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Furthurmore, mut@t@ brought up a good point ("it's like cultural differences"). No one knows where you're from, who you are, how old you are, etc. Add that to the fact that most people on this forum share enough common culture so that the term "owned" as used by cmdr would cause no offense. By coming to this forum, and many others on the internet (where a large variety of backgrounds and cultures meet up) you have the responsibility to yourself (to prevent unnecessary headaches) and to others (to keep things civil) to understand that, and react appropriately. With the number of people on this forum, and all the new people joining, it's impossible to consider everyone's background and try to pussyfoot around making sure that we don't accidentally offend anyone.[/quote]

that dazz kid is just stupid... its not like cultural differences.. we all speak english.. we all know general english.. Some kid who doesnt even have interenet, will pick up what that mean just reading the context.. when some you dont know comes out saying...LMAO you getting OWNED, over and over again..its too funny.. his intention was to insult . I dont how you can deny it.. but plse enlightened me...