Talk:Teh

message: 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)
replies: text: thanks! teh word teh is teh best! Mathmo Talk 04:40, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Looks like that's been done. -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 06:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: :Well, it serves a purpose. The word is an active subject of conversation and is used in a very conscious, almost post-modern sense. It has an unusual history, in being a typo that is used intentionally. It acts as a shibboleth of sorts, marking the user as a member of the online/gaming/IM community. Additionally, it occupies several fairly well-defined but unusual parts of speech. -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 06:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is also a foriegn word, Indonesian for 'Tea'. Because of this, I believe it should be kept seperate. But, it will most likely need expanding for it to be satisfactory. YazzaMatazza 14:55, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, I was actually curious about what "teh" was about and did a google search that directed me to this very useful article.  Now I understand.SHJohnson 23:20, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

text: This is stub-worthy, at best. And it still would have world-minded deletionists up its ass the whole time. Try an article for every internet cool-dude misspelling, or "shibboleth" as they are now known, apparently. 67.167.120.36 (talk) 22:56, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Only no-one is suggesting an article for every such word, just the best known ones. And go and read Shibboleth before getting sarky. 163.1.150.21 (talk) 16:21, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

text: Pizome said: "The word is an active subject of conversation and is used in a very conscious, almost post-modern sense." and "It acts as a shibboleth of sorts..." I think you're really reaching on this one. "Almost"? "of sorts"? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you're the editor who described the grammatical usage of Teh as "somewhat fluid." An encyclopedia entry should Clearly and Concisely describe what "Teh" means and how it is used, but an encyclopedia article is not an occasion for pretentious Deluezians to wax intellectual  about "grammatical fluidity."
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)
thread_title: Stupid

message: 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)
replies: text: Ha, that would be funny if this article had translations... Bob the Wikipedian (talk) 13:19, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Spanish

message: 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)
thread_title: Previous deletion nom

message: 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)
thread_title:  Citations added 

message: *Some people don't seem to know that teh is the, and seem to mistake it for a condescending , and say things like "Why you hatin'? Teh." Erudecorp 05:36, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: On the one hand, I agree. On teh other, loosen up. David Spector 04:38, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misuse of Teh 

message: 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)
replies: text: More accurate translation would be (in respective order, of course) "The hottest", "The ownage", "It's the craziest".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.129.239.143 (talk) 22:10, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Since you two use this in conversation, maybe you could tell us how you pronounce it. The article had two pronunciations, one not possible in English w/o extreme effort ([təh]; the [h] would drop off as soon as you use it with another word), and the other ambigous ([te]). Is the latter , or ? kwami (talk) 01:44, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't use it in speech frequently, but when I do (or when I've heard others say it) it's been [tə], the same vowel sound as how we would typically say unstressed "the" - [ðə]. 69.176.150.5 (talk) 05:19, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. kwami (talk) 05:31, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Teh should be pronounced the same as the.--T3h 1337 b0y (talk) 08:04, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

text: Let me be polite about this: Citation needed! --Slashme (talk) 09:06, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage 

message: ...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)
replies: text: As mentioned quite thoroughly above, because "teh" is becoming more and more popular in speech, it deserves a page in an encyclopedic website such as Wikipedia. Just because such an expression is associated with a myriad of varying internet colloquialisms does not deem it unimportant. The purpose of an encyclopedia is to document important things, and because "teh" has become important, a page exists. However, if this page does fail to make a good argument for its existence, it should definitely be merged with any article concerning memes or the like. Jantaro (talk) 23:08, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  How in the world... 

message: 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)
replies: text: Seriously?  It's pronounced "te"?  Is that like "tee" as in "golf tee"?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.249 (talk) 19:37, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Page ratings 

message: I see that previous the inclusion of the following "explanation" has been question:
:"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."
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)
thread_title:  Keyboard "explanation" 

message: Couldn't we just link to urban dictionary lol. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 19:10, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue weight, no  

message: 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)
thread_title:  Should this really be the first page that people go to when they search "Teh"?