StalinsNotDead's Journal: OK Probably a stupid question

What in tarnation does the Z in ZOMG mean? Is the OMG part Oh My God? Sorry, I've never been terribly good at these newfangled acronyms.

For the record, I do use instant messaging. I do puncuate when using it. I rarely use these shortened forms.

I think it's a deliberate typo

[artifex2004]

like how saying "OMG!!!111" or "teh" seems funny to repeat, sometimes.

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[StalinsNotDead]

I see. I was aware of teh and !!!!1111OneOne.

On a somewhat related note, I have a couple of acquaintances that routinely use things like LOL and ROTFLMAO. I was speaking with one of them and they told a joke. Without laughing I said "Roffle-Maow".

Their response was "huh?"

You know. "Loll, That was a funny joke".

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[FortKnox]

ZOMG is in the same family as PWNED

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[Shadow Wrought]

I also just interpreted the Z to be something along the lines of "Zowie" or "Zounds," which is always spoken in the voice of Ford Prefect. I also find it interesting when people say pwned. My stepsons pronounce it "P-owned" whereas I pronounce it "Owned". When I looked it up once it said that botrh pronunciations were OK, but the former was becoming more popular. *sigh*, now I know I'm getting old;-)

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[DaedalusHKX]

I thought it meant "pawned" myself.

Guess I must be very old school.

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[FortKnox]

No, you are very NEW school. Old school is 'owned' where 'pwned' came from. The new pronunciation is 'pawned'.

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[StalinsNotDead]

Where does the pronunciation of pooned fall? That's how I pronounced it when I first encountered it.

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[FortKnox]

I've never heard that one. If I did, the response would most likely be 'noob'. But I'm not one to respond in that way...

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[Short Circuit]

This is how I understood it.

Hehe

[dexterpexter]

Urban Dictionary says that it was simply a mistake, where someone meant to hit the shift key to type OMG and hit the Z key instead. It apparently caught on from there.

I always thought of it as a bastardized form of Valley Girl Speak, where the "like" wasn't aspirated and was eventually dropped. As in:

It's like Oh My God...
to
"It's-k Oh My God..."
to
"Ts Oh My God..."
to
"Zoh my God..." (ZOMG)