Re: USAGE: Internetese deviancy - the definite article

--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:10:59PM +0200, Benct
> Philip Jonsson wrote:
> > How widespread is this?  [nettish use of 'teh'] I
> haven't come across
> > it yet -- neither on the -net, the movies or TV.
> Will it be a
> > necessary component of any future English?
>
> Well, I've certainly encountered it.  In speech I
> first noticed it with
> "the" (e.g. "That is the suck!", analogous to its
> antonym "That is the
> bomb!", which is good even though "It totally
> bombed!"  is bad . . .)
> But I have noticed "teh" starting to overtake "the"
> in that particular
> role for some speakers.  I've also encountered
> spoken versions of h4x0r
> l33t-sp33k, like "That sux0r!" /D&t'sVk.sOr/.
>
> -Marcos
>
Out of curiosity, where are people encountering this?
I've never seen it or heard it, or even heard OF it
before this thread.  It seems quite alien to me.  For
the record, my locale: US, Pacific Northwest, rural
suburb of a college town.

--gary

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