Teh: Offensive
I'm very confused by the use of this word, "teh" all over the blog-O-net. Thankfully, the urban dictionary provided my clueless ass with a long list of definitions, but does anyone else still think it's... you know... really stupid?
And how are we supposed to pronounce it? "tĕ"? "tə"?
Either way I'm coming down hard against "teh" and any other quirk of online text creeping into spoken language. If someone ever uses "QWERTY" on me in a game of scrabble they're going to get an earful, official dictionaries be damned.
Comments
Clearly you don't read enough Penny Arcade.
But yeah, gamer and nerdspeak is getting absorbed into culture too easily. Over the holiday I learned that Catherine is familiar with most or all of the Slashdot running jokes. Pretty frightening.
Posted by: tom | January 2, 2006 06:47 PM
I for one, welcome the use of teh 'teh'.
It's at least as legitimate as the word 'blog'.
Posted by: joe | January 3, 2006 01:05 PM