Wow, your writing is really hip! "Teh" is a word often used in the hip 1980s computer slang known as "Leet", which does all sorts of silly things, such as replace letters with numerals that resemble them. (For example, the word "leet" could be spelled "1337".)
The word "teh" is used not only as a misspelling of the definite article "the", but also as a signifier that another part of speech is being used as a noun. (This is similar to the way the Greek definite article can be used to turn another part of speech into a noun. One example of this is the so-called "articular infinitive" το ειναι, "the to be", i.e. "existence".)
An example of this usage of "teh" is the following sentence: "This is teh sucks."
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Date: 2005-06-24 09:40 pm (UTC)Wow, your writing is really hip! "Teh" is a word often used in the hip 1980s computer slang known as "Leet", which does all sorts of silly things, such as replace letters with numerals that resemble them. (For example, the word "leet" could be spelled "1337".)
The word "teh" is used not only as a misspelling of the definite article "the", but also as a signifier that another part of speech is being used as a noun. (This is similar to the way the Greek definite article can be used to turn another part of speech into a noun. One example of this is the so-called "articular infinitive" το ειναι, "the to be", i.e. "existence".)
An example of this usage of "teh" is the following sentence:
"This is teh sucks."
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