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Teh used to redirect to to a dubiously useful page Alternative spellings of "the", but the "teh" section was wonderful. Unfortunately, the deletion vote did not take into account the possibility of just extracting the useful section. I have recreated it here, based on a Wikipedia mirror. Let's research this page and find sources rather than deleting useful content, m'kay? -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 14:27, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
History/talk needs restoration --
User:Alucardracula
God, this is stupid, but I see that I probably won't prevail in convincing people it should be deleted. But come on, do we really need an explanation of how this occurs as a typo? "T and E are typed by the left hand on adjacent fingers in Qwerty, while the H is typed by the right, and in rapid typing, the T and E are often typed by the left hand in a drumming motion before the right can get the H in between the two. Overcompensating with the right hand can result in the misspelling hte, which is also found in auto-correct lists." One of the stupidest things I've seen in my life. Delete this part, at least. Where do we draw the line? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.3.227.154 ( talk) 20:31, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
I could see this being worthy of a stub, maybe, but the whole grammar section seems like a joke. - KaJunl ( talk) 12:31, 10 October 2015 (UTC) KaJunl ( talk) 12:31, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
This might not be a big deal, but the example from the spanish is very awkward. It should be "yo soy el mejor," but lo is used in other cases like "eso fue lo mejor" etc. I mean, I certainly got the point, but it was a bit grating since I'm bilingual. -- User:bdieseldorff It is not stupid. It is just less used. Please respect its creator. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.100.106.215 ( talk) 07:39, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
I love it. "'Teh' usage?" 1337. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.120.148.173 ( talk) 23:32, 5 October 2009 (UTC) This analogy is wrong, since "mejor" means best and not good. It should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.166.188.113 ( talk) 04:41, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
I agree that the Spanish comparison doesn't seem apt. If "mejor" were the positive form of the adjective (rather than the comparative or superlative form), then "yo soy el mejor" would indeed be comparable to "I am teh good." However, given that "mejor" is the superlative and comparative form but not the positive form (which would be "bueno"), "yo soy el mejor" is instead comparable to the conventional English construction "I am the best." As far as I'm aware, there's no construction in Spanish along the lines of *"yo soy el bueno," which would be analogous to "I am teh good." Barring any argument to the contrary, I'll delete the Spanish sentence. 153.31.112.21 ( talk) 14:55, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
How does an article on the mispelling of a word serve a purpose? If this is the kind of things Wikipedia wants articles about, it shouldn't bill itself as an encyclopedia.
I can't help but notice how this usage is considered a good evolution of English. I am certain the pronunciations tih and tay are duo meanings. One is a preposition and the other an article or noun. 2604:2D80:C013:0:CD59:9525:48DA:81EA ( talk) 05:57, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Teh text of this article has apparently been moved around quite a bit. I participated in a discussion when it was up for deletion way back in October 2004 (back then it was still called Votes for Deletion). It had already survived a VfD the previous May. I do believe that at at various points it redirected to Internet slang, Leet, and even The. This article's history for some reason doesn't show anything prior to 2006. I voted "Keep" back in '04 based on precedent, but it was a rather dubious article back then. Most of the content was people's recollections (read " WP:OR") of people using the word on Something Awful. Teh content now is definitely a bit more encyclopedic, what with the discussion on how the unusual grammatical structure of "teh *" has correlations in other languages. However, it's still unsourced, and I'd guess it would be almost unsourceable. I doubt anyone's ever written a reliable source on teh subject. Fishal 20:26, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Actually, there's at least one undergraduate (linguistics) thesis on leetspeak from the last 5-10 years I have saved on my harddrive, and where there's one, there's bound to be more... -- User422 ( talk) 21:05, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
I've rewritten part of the article including citations to references pointed out by Zagalejo in the AfD 2nd nom. I haven't deleted the substantial discussion of its grammar - frankly I find some of its comparisons with other languages dubious but the analysis seems at least partly correct. If someone does want to delete it can they please move it to the talk page instead of deleting it entirely, so it can be reworked later by someone with more time? -- Zeborah 10:51, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
I'd like you all to know that the one and only reason for my newly created membership of wikipedia is so I could support the continuation of this article. I suspected that it meant something subtly different to "the" and BOOM! all is revealed. P.S. I find the reaction of the word snobs just a touch offensive to the original author. Also, these 'people' assume that everyone would realise that this is an internet slang term. Given that "Teh" has started to have at least occasional use in spoken English, this article makes perfect sense to me!
The usage of the (ugh) 'word' TEH is hateful and condescending in origin (in English), so you have described apt usage. It is hateful towards the literate, and condescending towards the speaker of the word and any who may hear it. Some of the Hatred and Condescension is subverted when used as a humour device, but not all. 58.6.103.215 ( talk) 03:31, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
I use and mostly say: "teh hawtness" (hottie spotted) teh pwnage (he owned you) it's teh crAAyziness (it's the most crazy thing) This usage is common, even is speech now, esp in US and UK and should be in the article. -- 81.105.245.251 ( talk) 11:56, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
More is accurate in what sense? I, too, use "teh" in my spoken English and it is neither homophonic (homophonous?) with "the" nor the same in meaning (as this article goes on at length to say). -- User422 ( talk) 21:08, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to add that TEH originated on a geek website in the summer of 2001 and spread accordingly. InvertedSuperNova (ISN) started it as a tool of resistance, and it has since become part of teh lexicon. ISN is also responsible for the popularity of ellipses which she used instead of punctuation, which has also spread. These are examples of internet memes. If you really want to be exact, you should credit ISN with this neologism.
...does this have its own page in an encyclopedia? For a second there I thought I was on uncyclopedia. I'm still not convinced that I'm not. Nzseries1 ( talk) 00:00, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
It is not common in spoken or written English outside technical or leetspeak circles, but when spoken, it is pronounced /tə/.
My experience bears this out; however, I feel the need to mention that the (only) time I have heard this word used in the media, it was pronounced in a deliberately forced/overenunciated way that included the H. In the Venture Bros. episode entitled "Victor, Echo, November," The Monarch says that a girl he met on a blog described his user icon as "teh-heh sex." -- Hapax ( talk) 18:58, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
When I click View page ratings at the bottom of this page, the objectivity rating is 1263 out of 5. -- 82.170.113.123 ( talk) 18:16, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Really? Really? An encyclopedic article on a misspelling? Because some nerds think it's cool? And it's become their weird insider slang? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE SHITTING ME. If this article stands, it will prove the absolute idiocracy that Wikispedia has become. Just my 2 cents! Nerds! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.33.72.18 ( talk) 16:24, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
I said this!
[insert witty meta-text on wikipedia signatures here]
02:07, 23 September 2021 (UTC)I see that previous the inclusion of the following "explanation" has been question:
While it is the case that in classically-trained touch typing the "E" and "T" are typed by the left hand, and the "H" the right, the vast majority of those so trained would not mistype "the" as "teh." It is, rather, an error made by predominently untrained individuals, whose keyboard use will be more defined by their dominent hand, and will rarely involve all four fingers on each hand. Nick Cooper ( talk) 13:28, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
Couldn't we just link to urban dictionary lol. WikiOriginal-9 ( talk) 19:10, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
This seem s way, way, way less important then the chinese concept Teh, like in the Tao Te Ching. Wikipedia has that under the page De (Chinese), and that's fine, but searching "Teh" shouldn't go here as the first option.
Actually, this page really just should be deleted for being incredibly stupid and irrelevant, but that's just me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:D:6880:62:6D75:2C17:8B15:A167 ( talk) 21:10, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
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Teh used to redirect to to a dubiously useful page Alternative spellings of "the", but the "teh" section was wonderful. Unfortunately, the deletion vote did not take into account the possibility of just extracting the useful section. I have recreated it here, based on a Wikipedia mirror. Let's research this page and find sources rather than deleting useful content, m'kay? -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 14:27, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
History/talk needs restoration --
User:Alucardracula
God, this is stupid, but I see that I probably won't prevail in convincing people it should be deleted. But come on, do we really need an explanation of how this occurs as a typo? "T and E are typed by the left hand on adjacent fingers in Qwerty, while the H is typed by the right, and in rapid typing, the T and E are often typed by the left hand in a drumming motion before the right can get the H in between the two. Overcompensating with the right hand can result in the misspelling hte, which is also found in auto-correct lists." One of the stupidest things I've seen in my life. Delete this part, at least. Where do we draw the line? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.3.227.154 ( talk) 20:31, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
I could see this being worthy of a stub, maybe, but the whole grammar section seems like a joke. - KaJunl ( talk) 12:31, 10 October 2015 (UTC) KaJunl ( talk) 12:31, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
This might not be a big deal, but the example from the spanish is very awkward. It should be "yo soy el mejor," but lo is used in other cases like "eso fue lo mejor" etc. I mean, I certainly got the point, but it was a bit grating since I'm bilingual. -- User:bdieseldorff It is not stupid. It is just less used. Please respect its creator. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.100.106.215 ( talk) 07:39, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
I love it. "'Teh' usage?" 1337. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.120.148.173 ( talk) 23:32, 5 October 2009 (UTC) This analogy is wrong, since "mejor" means best and not good. It should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.166.188.113 ( talk) 04:41, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
I agree that the Spanish comparison doesn't seem apt. If "mejor" were the positive form of the adjective (rather than the comparative or superlative form), then "yo soy el mejor" would indeed be comparable to "I am teh good." However, given that "mejor" is the superlative and comparative form but not the positive form (which would be "bueno"), "yo soy el mejor" is instead comparable to the conventional English construction "I am the best." As far as I'm aware, there's no construction in Spanish along the lines of *"yo soy el bueno," which would be analogous to "I am teh good." Barring any argument to the contrary, I'll delete the Spanish sentence. 153.31.112.21 ( talk) 14:55, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
How does an article on the mispelling of a word serve a purpose? If this is the kind of things Wikipedia wants articles about, it shouldn't bill itself as an encyclopedia.
I can't help but notice how this usage is considered a good evolution of English. I am certain the pronunciations tih and tay are duo meanings. One is a preposition and the other an article or noun. 2604:2D80:C013:0:CD59:9525:48DA:81EA ( talk) 05:57, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Teh text of this article has apparently been moved around quite a bit. I participated in a discussion when it was up for deletion way back in October 2004 (back then it was still called Votes for Deletion). It had already survived a VfD the previous May. I do believe that at at various points it redirected to Internet slang, Leet, and even The. This article's history for some reason doesn't show anything prior to 2006. I voted "Keep" back in '04 based on precedent, but it was a rather dubious article back then. Most of the content was people's recollections (read " WP:OR") of people using the word on Something Awful. Teh content now is definitely a bit more encyclopedic, what with the discussion on how the unusual grammatical structure of "teh *" has correlations in other languages. However, it's still unsourced, and I'd guess it would be almost unsourceable. I doubt anyone's ever written a reliable source on teh subject. Fishal 20:26, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Actually, there's at least one undergraduate (linguistics) thesis on leetspeak from the last 5-10 years I have saved on my harddrive, and where there's one, there's bound to be more... -- User422 ( talk) 21:05, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
I've rewritten part of the article including citations to references pointed out by Zagalejo in the AfD 2nd nom. I haven't deleted the substantial discussion of its grammar - frankly I find some of its comparisons with other languages dubious but the analysis seems at least partly correct. If someone does want to delete it can they please move it to the talk page instead of deleting it entirely, so it can be reworked later by someone with more time? -- Zeborah 10:51, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
I'd like you all to know that the one and only reason for my newly created membership of wikipedia is so I could support the continuation of this article. I suspected that it meant something subtly different to "the" and BOOM! all is revealed. P.S. I find the reaction of the word snobs just a touch offensive to the original author. Also, these 'people' assume that everyone would realise that this is an internet slang term. Given that "Teh" has started to have at least occasional use in spoken English, this article makes perfect sense to me!
The usage of the (ugh) 'word' TEH is hateful and condescending in origin (in English), so you have described apt usage. It is hateful towards the literate, and condescending towards the speaker of the word and any who may hear it. Some of the Hatred and Condescension is subverted when used as a humour device, but not all. 58.6.103.215 ( talk) 03:31, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
I use and mostly say: "teh hawtness" (hottie spotted) teh pwnage (he owned you) it's teh crAAyziness (it's the most crazy thing) This usage is common, even is speech now, esp in US and UK and should be in the article. -- 81.105.245.251 ( talk) 11:56, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
More is accurate in what sense? I, too, use "teh" in my spoken English and it is neither homophonic (homophonous?) with "the" nor the same in meaning (as this article goes on at length to say). -- User422 ( talk) 21:08, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
I just wanted to add that TEH originated on a geek website in the summer of 2001 and spread accordingly. InvertedSuperNova (ISN) started it as a tool of resistance, and it has since become part of teh lexicon. ISN is also responsible for the popularity of ellipses which she used instead of punctuation, which has also spread. These are examples of internet memes. If you really want to be exact, you should credit ISN with this neologism.
...does this have its own page in an encyclopedia? For a second there I thought I was on uncyclopedia. I'm still not convinced that I'm not. Nzseries1 ( talk) 00:00, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
It is not common in spoken or written English outside technical or leetspeak circles, but when spoken, it is pronounced /tə/.
My experience bears this out; however, I feel the need to mention that the (only) time I have heard this word used in the media, it was pronounced in a deliberately forced/overenunciated way that included the H. In the Venture Bros. episode entitled "Victor, Echo, November," The Monarch says that a girl he met on a blog described his user icon as "teh-heh sex." -- Hapax ( talk) 18:58, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
When I click View page ratings at the bottom of this page, the objectivity rating is 1263 out of 5. -- 82.170.113.123 ( talk) 18:16, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Really? Really? An encyclopedic article on a misspelling? Because some nerds think it's cool? And it's become their weird insider slang? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE SHITTING ME. If this article stands, it will prove the absolute idiocracy that Wikispedia has become. Just my 2 cents! Nerds! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.33.72.18 ( talk) 16:24, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
I said this!
[insert witty meta-text on wikipedia signatures here]
02:07, 23 September 2021 (UTC)I see that previous the inclusion of the following "explanation" has been question:
While it is the case that in classically-trained touch typing the "E" and "T" are typed by the left hand, and the "H" the right, the vast majority of those so trained would not mistype "the" as "teh." It is, rather, an error made by predominently untrained individuals, whose keyboard use will be more defined by their dominent hand, and will rarely involve all four fingers on each hand. Nick Cooper ( talk) 13:28, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
Couldn't we just link to urban dictionary lol. WikiOriginal-9 ( talk) 19:10, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
This seem s way, way, way less important then the chinese concept Teh, like in the Tao Te Ching. Wikipedia has that under the page De (Chinese), and that's fine, but searching "Teh" shouldn't go here as the first option.
Actually, this page really just should be deleted for being incredibly stupid and irrelevant, but that's just me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:D:6880:62:6D75:2C17:8B15:A167 ( talk) 21:10, 29 May 2015 (UTC)