Teh Metapost
I HEREBY DECLARE:
From this day forward, the practice of deliberately typing “teh” instead of “the” for the purposes of some kind of ironic or faux-innocent joke (“teh hot, teh sexy, teh cool,” etc, etc, etc) is no longer funny. It’s no longer funny partly because it wasn’t funny to begin with, but now it is both not funny and a sad, tired cliche.
Got it? Stop it. Just stop it. That day is done.
Mannnn, don’t be that guy. I suggest it for your own sake … humor is contextual and “teh” has its potential, concentrate on banishing the people who don’t understand restraint in comedy instead of the gimmicks.
For instance, I suggest establishing an offshore detainment facility.
Don’t you mean “teh gimmicks”?
OH MAN YOU’RE GOING TO GO TO THE CAMP!
You’re going to send me to teh gitmo? For that? AWESOME!
Unfortunately, sir Alcott…
your noble effort only provided the catalyst for hilarious lj conversation threads like the one I am replying to.
Re: Unfortunately, sir Alcott…
what i’m saying, heh.
In Chicago, in sight of a busy L stop near a college, someone posted this sign in their apartment window: “Stop saying “awesome”.
I fear this is a losing battle, teh gay!
Hear, hear!
I see your “teh” and I raise you a “I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.” One of those Internet phrases that grates more each time I read it.
As Sid Caesar used to scream at his writers around the conference table, “FUNNIER! BE…MORE…FUNNY!”
I have to admit, I’m impressed by the effort some faceless nerd put into that wikipedia page.
So is there also a moratorium on smexy, pr0n, and that old fav ROTFLMFAO?
I’ve actually never heard “smexy” before. I suppose now that I’ve heard it, it’s over-used.
A friend of mine actually invented smexy. A week later it was all over the place, or at least the places I go. Bizarre.
Oh, can we not use “bewbz” either? It is just wrong.
OK, now I know you’re just making stuff up.
wait, bewbz don’t exist?
What, “bewbz”? No, no, no, sincerely no. I detest neologisms. Maybe my fandoms just happen to be overpopulated with teenagers who think that’s amusing.
I love neologisms deeply, passionate, etc.
It’s stupid crap I hate.
Especially if the word that follows teh “teh” is suffixed with “-z0rz,” e.g. “teh lamez0rz.” Guhhhhh.
Are you a player-hater? Do you hate the players?
A Public Service Message…
Hi kids, M. C. Brennan here. Did you know every year, tens of thousands of Americans are killed by loaded gnus? You would, if you suffered from dyselxia, a reading and writing disorder that affects literally mlilions of Americans, including myself. It’s bad enough to have to fight dyslexia, but it’s made even worse by faux hipster internet komedy kutups inverting letters deliberately–it’s a tired joke, and it gives teh finger to basic human compassion and good taste. And no, it will not get you laid. So please, give us a hnad.
Dyslexia is no LOLing matter. Please, stop using “teh”. No isf, nads, or btus.
Re: A Public Service Message…
Actually hadn’t thought of that angle before. I bet it is a nightmare for kids with dyslexia. Good point!
But I wont even use text speak, and spend ages ytping texts in real English when I have to 🙂 So I would rather pull my arm off than say Da Monarch is Teh Sex, unless I was being ironic!
Any resembalance is only my inability to type! 🙂
Oh no, the “teh” is over?
Man, I never really got to use it. I’m just going to have to be faster on draw, meme-wise.
(<meta-ironic use of item complained about>|<insightful commentary>|<irrelevant tangent>)
While we’re at it, can we have the coroner declare lolcats and goatse jokes dead too?
Lolcats will never die. As long as there are domesticated cats, cameras, and the internet, and people to point those cameras at those cats, and those cats look like they want a cheeseburger, there will be funny pictures of cats on the internet.
Of course, the coming Islamofascist revolution could change all of that.
Hear Hear!
Shot at 2007-08-20
You should join
Also, Trans Europe Halles thanks you.
I thought it was a simple typo. That’s supposed to be funny? Why?
I am proud to say that I have never once used that, even in the service of making a joke — and I’m a regular poster on the Adult Swim Message Boards, so you can imagine how great the temptation has been.
omg, I use to post on that and dear god, I am so… oh, all the miss-used grammar! It just tears my heart out.
Don’t be too hard on the poor miss. It wasn’t her fault she used all that grammar.
i’d like to nominate “meh” as a potentially worse, more annoying term. it doesn’t have the meta-ironic thing, but it is way more totally annoying.
Can we put a moratorium on “who’s your daddy?” while we’re at it?
What about “Hoosier daddy”? Are you leaving Indiana residents bereft?
Oh, it was meant to be funny?
I am clearly slow on the uptake of these things…I just thought people couldn’t type….
Damn you, Todd! The Internet finally, albeit inadvertently, made even the likes of me appear hip and “with it.” Now, after your decree, I’ll have to go back to being just another square who transposes letters whenever he types too quickly.
If, in the future, it becomes trendy to trip over one’s own feet or to accidentally make up nonsense words during conversation do me a favor and let me enjoy it for at least a week or two. Who knows how long it will be before historical forces work in my favor again.
I agree
I also agree that kids have been on my lawn too much, and that hippaty-hop aint real music! Dagnammit!
😉
Re: I agree
I didn’t want to bring it up, since it seemed a little tangential, but the problem of kids being on my lawn is a real and serious one, which gets nothing close to the attention it deserves by the MSM. Anderson Cooper, where are you?
Re: I agree
lol 🙂
Zinggggg!