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t3h? Think you have secret coded typo there, dontcha?

 

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 "ph34r t3h ..." (Fear the...).

 

Besides being an alternate spelling of the, teh also has grammatical properties not generally applied to the; in general, it is used somewhat like an intensified "the". It can be used with proper names, as in "teh John"; compare the usage of the definite article in Greek: ο Ιωαννης (o Ioannes), literally "the John". A similar usage comes from colloquial German, where the definite article is used as a specifier to modify the noun: "Der Johann", again literally, "the John", could be used to identify John, and not Phil, as the subject performing a certain action. In Latin, the similar word illus and its declensions, which was at first an intensified article usually translated as "that", became the simple word for "the" in the languages derived from Latin.

 

Furthermore, 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.

 

In English, the can be used as an intensifier for the superlative form of adjectives; compare "that is best" and "that is the best." 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 mispelled words on his homepage in a parody of a certain stereotype of Internet user.

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t3h? Think you have secret coded typo there, dontcha?

 

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 "ph34r t3h ..." (Fear the...).

 

Besides being an alternate spelling of the, teh also has grammatical properties not generally applied to the; in general, it is used somewhat like an intensified "the". It can be used with proper names, as in "teh John"; compare the usage of the definite article in Greek: ο Ιωαννης (o Ioannes), literally "the John". A similar usage comes from colloquial German, where the definite article is used as a specifier to modify the noun: "Der Johann", again literally, "the John", could be used to identify John, and not Phil, as the subject performing a certain action. In Latin, the similar word illus and its declensions, which was at first an intensified article usually translated as "that", became the simple word for "the" in the languages derived from Latin.

 

Furthermore, 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.

 

In English, the can be used as an intensifier for the superlative form of adjectives; compare "that is best" and "that is the best." 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 mispelled words on his homepage in a parody of a certain stereotype of Internet user.

 

Thanks for the edumacation. I now know that whenever I mispell something, I'm just being cool, or whatever you leetists call it! wink.gif

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