ok, i dont want to sound terribly ignorant, but...

synaptic aether · Dec 19, 2005

i hear that 1337 (leet) originated from kids in highschool who were sick of teachers leaning over their shoulders to read what they were wrinting in emails and stuff. but not like "lol" n such. that's just abrivations n shit for communicating through typing.

SunshineLovePeace · Dec 19, 2005

Micha said:

didn't you make a thread about this like when you FIRST came here?
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ummm....no...:H

or at least i dont think i did...

naw, im pretty much certain i didnt.

cuz i dont think i have ever know what all the "teh" shit was about, but i never thought to ask. so last nite, in my insomnia-induced boredom, i did.

sexyxsadie · Dec 19, 2005

rhasta.penguin said:

In the online slang known as Leet, it is deliberately used in place of the, and occasionally spelled t3h with a numeral 3 in place of e. Teh and t3h are the traditional spellings of the in the phrase "ph33r t3h ..." (Fear the...). ...teh is sometimes used in front of a verb, turning it into a species of compound noun chain. The best-known example of this is the word suck. Thus, the phrase this sucks can be converted into this is teh suck; the word pwn can be similarly converted (teh pwn). The above phrases are primarily used by the computer gaming community, and often intended humorously.

...Teh has a similar use as an intensifier for unmodified adjectives, generally marking a sarcastic tone. For example, "that is teh lame" translates as "that is the lamest." This contrasts with the use of the in English to construct mass nouns from adjectives, as in "blessed are the meek," where the meek denotes a class of people who are meek.

The widespread popularity of purposefully using Teh on Internet forums and other forms of communication most likely stemmed from the fictitious character JeffK, of the humour website Something Awful, who often misspelled words on his homepage in a parody of a certain stereotype of Internet user.

"Teh gay" is often used as an intentionally ineffective insult.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teh

people just think its cool to use teh, cause it is teh pwnzorz
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jesus! XD

And we'll remember this when we are old and ancient
Though the specifics might be vague
And i'll say your camisole was sprightly light magenta
When in fact it was a nappy blueish grey<~ greatest quote ever.

ihmurria · Dec 19, 2005

rhasta.penguin said:

In the online slang known as Leet, it is deliberately used in place of the, and occasionally spelled t3h with a numeral 3 in place of e. Teh and t3h are the traditional spellings of the in the phrase "ph33r t3h ..." (Fear the...). ...teh is sometimes used in front of a verb, turning it into a species of compound noun chain. The best-known example of this is the word suck. Thus, the phrase this sucks can be converted into this is teh suck; the word pwn can be similarly converted (teh pwn). The above phrases are primarily used by the computer gaming community, and often intended humorously.

...Teh has a similar use as an intensifier for unmodified adjectives, generally marking a sarcastic tone. For example, "that is teh lame" translates as "that is the lamest." This contrasts with the use of the in English to construct mass nouns from adjectives, as in "blessed are the meek," where the meek denotes a class of people who are meek.

The widespread popularity of purposefully using Teh on Internet forums and other forms of communication most likely stemmed from the fictitious character JeffK, of the humour website Something Awful, who often misspelled words on his homepage in a parody of a certain stereotype of Internet user.

"Teh gay" is often used as an intentionally ineffective insult.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teh

people just think its cool to use teh, cause it is teh pwnzorz
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I love that someone actually bothered to type all that shit up and submid it to wiki

rhasta.penguin · Dec 20, 2005

ihmurria said:

I love that someone actually bothered to type all that shit up and submid it to wiki
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hahahaha

Orsino2 · Dec 20, 2005

synaptic aether said:

i hear that 1337 (leet) originated from kids in highschool who were sick of teachers leaning over their shoulders to read what they were wrinting in emails and stuff. but not like "lol" n such. that's just abrivations n shit for communicating through typing.
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Your sig always gets me.

all_rhodesian_reject · Dec 20, 2005

sexyxsadie said:

jesus! XD

And we'll remember this when we are old and ancient
Though the specifics might be vague
And i'll say your camisole was sprightly light magenta

When in fact it was a nappy blueish grey<~ greatest quote ever.
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dankie

loveflower · Dec 20, 2005

SunshineLovePeace said:

wtf is up with all this "teh" shit?

is there something i missed sometime...? :H

or can ppl just not spell "the" correctly?

whatever it is, it seems pretty stupid to me...

but yeah, someone needs to explain it to me...
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seconded i hate it

prism · Dec 20, 2005

God, even I, Marisa, gave that up ages ago.

Bocks · Dec 20, 2005

BannedInDC said:

But teh is teh greatest
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I think, according to

rhasta.penguin said:

...Teh has a similar use as an intensifier for unmodified adjectives, generally marking a sarcastic tone. For example, "that is teh lame" translates as "that is the lamest."
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,

what you MEANT to say was "teh is teh great".

Haha. I get it, I think. What a bizarre expression...

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