"teh"

Thank you for using the phrase " a lot" properly. That one pushes my buttons. There is no such word as "alot" and I see it everywhere including business correspondence on a college campus. I don't get angry about it -- it just makes me question the credibility of the poster. Sorry, that's just human nature. I guess fossils like me may have to give in and add it to the dictionary some day . . .

I play City of Heroes as well, where punctuation and grammar are more like loose suggestions than ways of communication. I always love to get tells that say, "u teem"

I always feel like responding, "I'm sorry, I don't take orders from people who aren't paying me." Or, "Did you want me to team with you? Or are you looking for team?" I find that sometimes big words (more than one letter) scares them away.

Usually if I only drop one letter, then it is simply a typo on my part - though, depending on what I am trying to emphasis or what I am jokin about, I might intentionally drop the 'g' from an 'ing' suffix on a word.

I *still* cringe when someone writes or says "sci-fi". It just ain't right!

Abbreviating July Jul. has always seemed a bit odd to me.

You know how it is. Every generation has to come up with a new slang to differentiate themselves. In a few years the next generation will get tired of leet speak and will invent something entirely new and annoying.

I get teh; we all get typos especially when it's late at night and we are typing bleary eyed in the dark. What has puzzled me is why people growl. What's with the "grrrrr" typed response to express displeasure? Do typing growlers growl in real life conversation too? It's a mystery!

Please see acrimonious discussions elsewhere for a description of your error.

Pep (I always assume that if people don't use the shift key - capitals, punctuation etc - that they are probably typing one handed; draw your own conclusions)

It's pretentious posing. Or a disguise for those who can't spell or type or think so little of their readers that they can't be bothered to spell check.

Pep (If you started this thread because of my suggestion elsewhere then thank you; if you didn't, I still thank you)

Have to agree on 'teh' as opposed to several other combinations. 'Teh' is not a regularly botched sequence where the word goes against how many people's fingers fire on the keyboard. To do it occasionally can happen to anyone, but there are two posters who insist that they do it all the time by accident. Yeah, right. 'T' and 'E' are typically struck by the same hand, so a real 'teh' becoming 'the' is more logical than 'the' regularly becoming 'teh'. And it isn't a shorthand for anything when it contains the same letters. I can accept people being amusing (as if it were my call anyway) or semi-dyslexic misspellings anywhere (I have two of my own that are a bane to my touch typing), but to post 'teh' over and over in what is otherwise a serious post is a touch deliberately illiterate. And using 'teh' repeatedly in a flame post or whining post is truly poring oil on the flames (no pun intended).

Ahem.

Tap, tap, tap...

"IM IN UR FORUMZ, PWNING UR TYPOS"

Thank you.

any and all typos of mine are because my brain goes too fast for my fingers. my mother TOLD me to take typing in high school and i refused...i told her i would NEVER have to type, so why would i need it. LOL

as for alot instead of a lot...im guilty...its one less keystroke so i just type it that way.

That and thnx. . what happened to the a? It can't be that hard to do!
Well I guess if your going to do it, might as well do it right.

/me locks Pep and Stagger in a white room with an internet connection to observe them for signs of apoplexy.

Looks like the Friday thread is a day late. Popcorn, anyone?

I do it all the time by accident. It's a very easy typo to make, since you just need to be a little slow with your right hand so your left hits "te" by reflex before the right can get "h" in the middle.

The difference, I guess, is that I proofread my posts before I hit send.

What makes you think it angers me, Malia?

Pep (I merely consider such things as indicative of inadequacies in posters' intellectual capabilities and therefore believe any of their opinions should be considered less valid)

Many people enjoy being silly. I don't understand why that would bother you.

From the Urban Dictionary:

teh

A common mis-spelling of the most frequently-used term in the English language, "the". Since then, this typo has been embraced by the l33tsp33k community, and is frequently used on message boards and forums.

OMG j00 ar3 teh PWNED lol!!111oneoneone


I highly recommend the Urban Dictionary as a great online resource for translating everything said online by people under 20 - and nothing is more certain to piss off your kids than to use their slang!

People just being silly don't bother me at all.

Pep (It's people being silly who want to be taken seriously that bother me)

Good point, you actually seem to enjoy correcting errors immensely, unlike the OP... You are excused from the experiment.

Dude! You ever say, "dude"?

Don't you ever give a high-five instead of a firm handshake?

Do you ever go to the store in flip-flops and shorts instead of a suit and tie?

You ever flash your gang sign to your homey? Or do you always say, "Top of the morning my fine sir"?

How is it you act casual and contemporary in so many ways but "teh" throws you and is perceived as an abominable affront?

I'd like YOU to 'splain, Lucy!

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Originally Posted by Cael Merryman
To do it occasionally can happen to anyone, but there are two posters who insist that they do it all the time by accident.



Me, too.

I expect that both you and I would be absolved of posing as leetniks by the fact that the occasional 'teh' isn't accompanied by other examples of the poseur's art.

(I don't proofread enough, sadly, so I know some of my 'teh's do make it onto the screen.)

For me, teh problem is typing too fats.

Poseurs? POSEURS?!!!

There isn't a person in the world that hasn't attempted to distinguish themselves by affecting some unique aspect of speech, dress, gesture, moral code or artistic expression.

How can you criticize anybody for doing something that WE ALL HAVE DONE HUNDREDS OF TIMES IN OUR LIVES?

You people are HIP-O-CRATES!!!

And that's teh truth.