What the hell is "teh"?

[95riosnake]

I have been on various mustang forums for about 3 years (either lurking or as a member), and the one thing that has never made sense to me is the use of the term "teh." I assume it replaces "the," but why? It requires the same amount of typing, and I have never heard someone actually say the word "teh" in real life.

I know, sort of a dumb thread, but I have given up trying to understand this on my own.

Feel free to comment on other forum language things such as spelling owned "pwned" or "pwn3d"...

 

[drakesdad]

For some reason all this language change started in the gaming community.......and has carried over.....lol

 

[Nik_95Cobra]

Because "Teh" Roxxors teh big one11111 duh

 

[rebelleader]

'teh' is simply the word 'the' misspelled. As in the person was typing too quickly.

as for 'pwned', again it is a typo. The 'o' and 'p' are right next to each other on the keyboard.

Another popular mis-type is the use of the exclamation point. Take this sentence: "Mustangs rule!!!!111!!!!"
The ones are in there because the person typing accidentally took his finger off of the shift key for a second. A variation of that is !!!!!111!!!!!one!!.

For more info do a google search for 'leet speak'. Here is a wiki entry about 'leet speak' WIKI

 

[Nik_95Cobra]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7949584856105418732&q=leet

Kinda gay but that's it (I didn't bother watching the whole thing)

 

[rebelleader]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7949584856105418732&q=leet

Kinda gay but that's it (I didn't bother watching the whole thing)

That was the gayest vid I have ever watched . I hope that guy gets 'pwned' up the a$$ for talking like that.

 

[Nik_95Cobra]

Heh yeah I don't understand it either.

 

[95riosnake]

That was the gayest vid I have ever watched . I hope that guy gets 'pwned' up the a$$ for talking like that.

I could only take about 10 seconds of that douche before I turned it off.

 

[HISSIN50]

WHen Patrick was around in here, I kind of kept up on the hip lingo you E-kids use. Now I dont have a clue (it took me months and finally asking to figure out what bapples were).

 

[Blackened302]

hehe, this is teh win!!!11eleven

 

[GRGT1994]

This exact topic came up here before, bout a year ago. But search is letting me down.

 

[final5-0]

Yes ... Lots of those things don't make sense to me

Took me a long time to figure what IIRC was all about but, I use it all the time now

If I don't know what they mean ... I still sleep good at night

Grady

 

[1TallMF]

Took me a long time to figure what IIRC was all about but, I use it all the time now

Grady

What the heck is IIRC anyways, I've been scratching my head on that one for a long time

 

[mricci]

yea thats one of the few that i dont know when people use it.

 

[rebelleader]

IIRC = If I recall correctly
YMMV = Your milege may vary
IMHO = In my humble opinion
RTFM = Read the ****ing Manual

 

[final5-0]

I unintentionally stumpped a few folks a week or two ago with one I thought EVERYBODY knew

WYSIWYG = what you see is what you get

Grady

 

[rebelleader]

I unintentionally stumpped a few folks a week or two ago with one I thought EVERYBODY knew

WYSIWYG = what you see is what you get

Grady

I had never seen that one before.

 

[mricci]

yea thats the first time i have seen that one too.

 

[The Green GT]

Because its the 1337 thing to say

 

[SQUEEZE&STROKE]

That was so funny ITIJPM



(I think I just peed myself)