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

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...

 

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

 

LOL...


now i know how to spot computer nerds

 

its annoying as hell. sometimes when i type fast i'll accidently type that way (not cause i'm a gamer or computer nerd or whatever, but cause i'm typing fast). and i get mad at myself...

 

Yeah it is stupid.

Some internet slang I can tolerate, and will use myself (e.g LOL, WTF). There is some though that just drives me insane.

Never realised what it meant and all, just thought some people were retards, which maybe they are, but you know.

 

didn't you make a thread about this like when you FIRST came here?

 

For some reason that made me laugh a lot.

But okay, it all makes sense now. I just thought people misspell a lot unintentionally.

 

I think "teh" and most of 1337 comes from people getting sick and tired of writing the same words of and over. But teh is teh greatest

 

lol, like who?

 

i m teh gretest cause i can l33t sp3ak >?

Just kidding guys

 

i usually type "teh" accidently..never knew it was a slang

 

1nn3rn3t 51ang 15 t3h 5h1t

 

sorry i couldnt get the first word =P

 

Internet slang is the shit

OOH YEAH!

 

i thought it say internet but wasnt sure cuz i didnt see no "t"

 

i don't know if i'd call it slang
cos it's the same words
just..spelled differently

acutally spelled right
but with different..
well you know..

 

yes i get

 

god damn hackers and their code
=P

 

Yeah that confuzzled me as well

 

Oh completely *nods in agreement*