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Do so many people type "teh"? Is that just a typo, a mistake made when people try to type the word "the"? Or is it some sort of internet slang? Someone just tell me what the heck it is supposed to mean.

Some people think it's cool to mispell. And that is why I make fun of them.

Do so many people type "teh"? Is that just a typo, a mistake made when people try to type the word "the"? Or is it some sort of internet slang? Someone just tell me what the heck it is supposed to mean.

It means "the" and is either a typo or internet slang based on a typo.

Yes, those crazy internet slang people.

"Teh" = The
"Pwn" = Own
"Roxxorz" = Rocks
"Kno" = Know

... and the list goes on.

its kinda like 'pwned'.... why can't you just put 'owned' and speak English right, il never know

I think lots of people do it on purpose. Bugs the crap outta me. I can take an honest typo (I make tons of them!) but don't try to make yourself look dumb. And this "kewl" business is lame as well.

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

17S T3H L337 SP34K 0F T3H N00BS!!!!11111!!!shift!!11shiftone!!!111

are you saying you have never been typing along and accidentally typed the as teh? i do it all the time

sometimes its a typo, the rest of the time its being goofy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leetspeak
bah! stupid 13375p34k.

It's l33tsp33k. It's an internet text dialect. Typoes are sometimes deliberate.
l33t = leet, as in elite. Teh = the. There's heaps more. it's a bit ironically humourous.
I am teh hotnesssss!!!1!!1

the only reason i even know what the hell leetspeak is because all of my boyfriends have been gamers and use it regularly. you either learn it or miss out on half the conversation.

Okay.....

are you saying you have never been typing along and accidentally typed the as teh? i do it all the time

sometimes its a typo, the rest of the time its being goofy

If I do make a typo, I FIX it.

the only reason i even know what the hell leetspeak is because all of my boyfriends have been gamers and use it regularly. you either learn it or miss out on half the conversation.

I didn't even think it was possible to pronounce leetspeak.

I didn't even think it was possible to pronounce leetspeak.
haha good point. In spoken conversation they just use terms like "owned" and "haxored". However if you're talking to them via the written/typed word it's in leet. I think it's silly but to each his own.

Not only am I dyslexic, but my left hand seems the be able to type quicker than my right, so I constantly end up typing teh instead of the, for instance. But I do try and re-read what I have said before posting. :(

haha good point. In spoken conversation they just use terms like "owned" and "haxored". However if you're talking to them via the written/typed word it's in leet. I think it's silly but to each his own.
Yeah, the next time someone uses haxxored in actual conversation, you are perfectly justified in hitting them upside the head with a sock full of quarters.

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

is important to note that while "b0x0rz" appears to be leet for "boxers", it is actually from a common leet expression "r0x0r j00r b0x0rz", "b0x0rz" meaning "computers" (sometimes referred to as boxes, or among system administrators, boxen)

That's...crap.

And here I am thinking it meant boxer shorts :mad:

I think it's not cool to make intentional typos. Sadly, the internet community doesn't agree with me.

Yeah, the next time someone uses haxxored in actual conversation, you are perfectly justified in hitting them upside the head with a sock full of quarters.
AHAHA. My poor boyfriend and his friends are going to be purple! Actually I won't hit Jon just his friends because I don't care about them. The talking like idiots doesn't bother me as much as it used to. I guess I have just gotten used to it. Sometimes I find myself telling my non computer savvy(and mostly female) friends that they have been "owned/pwned" and they just look at me with a blank stare like why the hell did you just say that? It infiltrates your brain...

First thing that comes to mind...

n00b W4rz!

Me fail inglish?! That unposseble

My keyboard buttons are a little sticky.

My keyboard buttons are a little sticky.
I won't ask

"teh" for most people is just a typo, and the origin of "pwned" cones frm Warcraft three. there was a popular coustom map that had that when a player lost it would say "~so and so~ was just owned". But there was a typo and he wrote "pwned". the map was so popular that people began using "pwned" as a word meaning beyond owned.

Owned was not originally 1337 sp34k word, but just Rocker street slang

4/\/|] 7#3123 15 /\/07#1/\/ \/\/120/\/6 \/\/17# 1337 5p34|<

pwned does not come from W3! Much earlier. Maybe W2?

yup, the only time i ever seen "teh" has been on purpose. It started out as a common typo and then turned into an actual "word".

the only reason i even know what the hell leetspeak is because all of my boyfriends have been gamers and use it regularly. you either learn it or miss out on half the conversation.

I'm so sorry. Consider dating within your own species next time. I mean, it's very charitable of you to attempt to date those less evolved than you, but still, it's gotta be frustrating.

I won't ask

Hilarious!!!







...and very wise.

Hilarious!!!







...and very wise.
that's me http://67.18.37.16/html/emoticons/sleep.gif

Do so many people type "teh"? Is that just a typo, a mistake made when people try to type the word "the"? Or is it some sort of internet slang? Someone just tell me what the heck it is supposed to mean.

I have a peculiar typing method that's half touch and half "talon." Talon is index and ring fingers of both hands, with right thumb for the space bar. Being left-handed, the interplay between left and right required to type "the" is sometimes jumped by my quicker left hand, resulting in "teh" and occasionally "tehm" (them) and "tehse" (these).

What's weird is that I only recently developed this little idiosyncrasy. I taught myself to type on an old Smith-Corona manual typewriter back in the late 70s/early 80s. I think that, within the last five years or so, my left hand has sped up because the resistance of the keys on a modern keyboard is nothing compared to that on a manual typewriter (which, for purely aesthetic and nostalgic reasons only, I sometimes miss -- I wouldn't give up MS Word for the old Smith-Corona). So I see this error a lot and it drives me nucking futs.

Another typing problem I have is my apparent affection for the left "shift" key. I have to scour my posts and emails for double capital letters. I think it's because I've recently outsourced the shit job to my left pinky, and it doesn't have the quickness of my other digits.

Holy crap, that's a lot more than you needed to know. Sorry.

Oh, and "leet" really, really, REALLY sucks ass. These people need to go the hell outside.

that's me


So I've noticed! You're something of a celebrity around here.

So I've noticed! You're something of a celebrity around here.
*flicks hair over shoulder and poses for cameras*


well I wouldn't say celebrity....

Gamer talk is the way of the future!!! No really its preety much a language on its own.... If anybody here plays Halo online and dosent understand gamer talk.. youll preety much think its a different world. But as my typos.. I just type horribly, dont really do it on purpose

I'm so sorry. Consider dating within your own species next time. I mean, it's very charitable of you to attempt to date those less evolved than you, but still, it's gotta be frustrating.
haha. My boyfriend is of the same species I am. He is awesome. I've never been frustrated by his speech or game playing. I'm pretty sure Jon is more evolved than me anyway so he's doing me the favour.

AFI

teh is ignorance speed typing and slang.....................