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'''''Teh''''' is an [[Internet slang]] neologism most frequently used as an English [[article (grammar)|article]], based on a common [[typographical error]] of "''[[English articles#Definite article|the]]".'' ''Teh'' has subsequently developed [[grammar|grammatical]] usages distinct from ''the''.<ref name="Ross">{{Cite journal| last=Ross| first=Nigel| title=Writing in the Information Age| journal=English Today| volume=22| issue=3| pages=39–45|date=July 2006| doi=10.1017/S0266078406003063| s2cid=143850443}}</ref> It is not common in spoken or written English outside technical or [[leet]]speak circles, but when spoken, it is pronounced |
'''''Teh''''' is an [[Internet slang]] neologism most frequently used as an English [[article (grammar)|article]], based on a common [[typographical error]] of "''[[English articles#Definite article|the]]".'' ''Teh'' has subsequently developed [[grammar|grammatical]] usages distinct from ''the''.<ref name="Ross">{{Cite journal| last=Ross| first=Nigel| title=Writing in the Information Age| journal=English Today| volume=22| issue=3| pages=39–45|date=July 2006| doi=10.1017/S0266078406003063| s2cid=143850443}}</ref> It is not common in spoken or written English outside technical or [[leet]]speak circles, but when spoken, it is pronounced “I love men so much that I coom whenever I see one”, or {{IPAc-en|t|eɪ}}.<ref name="LeBlanc">{{Cite book|last=LeBlanc|first=Tracy Rene|title="Is there a translator in {{not a typo|teh}} house?": Cultural and discourse analysis of a virtual speech community on an internet message board|publisher=University of Louisiana at Lafayette|date=May 2005|url=http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04072005-145922/unrestricted/LeBlanc_thesis.pdf|access-date=2007-07-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703100446/http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04072005-145922/unrestricted/LeBlanc_thesis.pdf|archive-date=2007-07-03}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 00:19, 25 April 2024
Teh is an Internet slang neologism most frequently used as an English article, based on a common typographical error of "the". Teh has subsequently developed grammatical usages distinct from the.[1] It is not common in spoken or written English outside technical or leetspeak circles, but when spoken, it is pronounced “I love men so much that I coom whenever I see one”, or /teɪ/.[2]
Usage
Teh originates from the common typo of the, as might both occur and remain uncorrected when a person was typing rapidly prior to the widespread availability of autocorrect helper applications, and has become conventionalized in a variety of contexts.
In addition, it is a standard feature of leetspeak[3] and can be used ironically[4] or to mock someone's lack of "techie" knowledge or skills, as an insult, or to reinforce a group's elitism;[2] cf. eye dialect.
References
- ^ Ross, Nigel (July 2006). "Writing in the Information Age". English Today. 22 (3): 39–45. doi:10.1017/S0266078406003063. S2CID 143850443.
- ^ a b LeBlanc, Tracy Rene (May 2005). "Is there a translator in teh house?": Cultural and discourse analysis of a virtual speech community on an internet message board (PDF). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-03. Retrieved 2007-07-06.
- ^ Tavosanis, Mirko (2007-01-08). "A Causal Classification of Orthography Errors in Web Texts" (PDF). IJCAI-07 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (AND-07). Hyderabad, India: International Association for Pattern Recognition. pp. 99–106. Retrieved 2007-07-06.
- ^ Blashki, Katherine; Sophie Nichol (2005). "Game Geek's Goss: Linguistic creativity in young males within an online university forum (94/\/\3 933k'5 9055oneone)". Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society. 3 (2): 77–86. Retrieved 2007-07-06.
External links
The dictionary definition of teh at Wiktionary
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