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Teh

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:30 pm
by dintbo(aka bosco)
I'm very confused by this one. Why do people spell 'the' like 'teh' a lot these days. At first I thought it was a typo. Mixing up letters when typing is easy to do. But I've seen this too much for it to be a mistake. Can anyone explain. Bosco confused. Or should I say, bsoco cnofsued :D

Re: Teh

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:37 pm
by FullMetal_old
In a way it makes people seem ''cool'' by going like t3h awzome but it sounds silly ^^

Re: Teh

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:44 pm
by Del
"Teh is an internet slang neologism most frequently used as an English article, based on a common misspelling of the. A common typographical error, this typo became a part of Internet slang and subsequently developed grammatical usages distinct from the.[1] It is not common in spoken or written English outside technical or leetspeak circles"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teh" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

gwan teh wiki!

Re: Teh

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:45 pm
by Taekwon-joe
Curse you lol cat generation and your tricky grammer!!

Yeah i suppose it comes from that mocking/cute/retarded intenet language that I always read as if its being said by a 7 year old.

Re: Teh

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:47 pm
by Selby
It is just gay. it is quicker to type 'the' than 'teh'... (by milliseconds)

Re: Teh

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:51 pm
by dintbo(aka bosco)
Cheers Metal and del. I've learned something today. In fact I learned 2 things, as I had no idea what a neologism was either. Didn't even know it existed.

so just to be sure I've got it:

'I gotta go and put teh dinner on' would be wrong, but
'Did you see that bottle kill, i am teh leet pwner cyclops' would be perfectly correct.

Its a funny old interweb we live in :lol:

Re: Teh

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:54 pm
by vonklinkerhoffen
dintbo(aka bosco) wrote:I'm very confused by this one. Why do people spell 'the' like 'teh' a lot these days. At first I thought it was a typo. Mixing up letters when typing is easy to do
Hmm I remember from the old 24/7 2fort days a guy named "Teh Pauleh" lol
So it's - not offensive meant- "old"

For all your neologisms and slang, I refer to :

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teh" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Teh Urban Dictionareh ;)

Re: Teh

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:56 pm
by dintbo(aka bosco)
Urban Dictionary is teh shit :lol: :lol:

Re: Teh

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:58 pm
by Taekwon-joe
dintbo(aka bosco) wrote:'I gotta go and put teh dinner on' would be wrong,
It would be correct if you changed dinner to 'dinnerz' and ended the sentence with a 'rofllmao!!!'

Re: Teh

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:59 pm
by LazyEagle
vonklinkerhoffen wrote:
dintbo(aka bosco) wrote:I'm very confused by this one. Why do people spell 'the' like 'teh' a lot these days. At first I thought it was a typo. Mixing up letters when typing is easy to do
Hmm I remember from the old 24/7 2fort days a guy named "Teh Pauleh" lol
So it's - not offensive meant- "old"

For all your neologisms and slang, I refer to :

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teh" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Teh Urban Dictionareh ;)
Excellent stuff!

Does it also explain Leet Speak?
I'm sick of not being able to understand some of the names on the server!