Enough,Already!--"Teh"/"The"....

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Now before I start to accuse various Forumites(and some members of the Great British Public) of being pretentious and being poseurs of the highest order,can anyone explain why this has sneaked into everyday usage?

The idea of "Textspeak" was to abbreviate certain words and save time and space,that I understand.

Replacing "the" with "teh" escapes me.

Could you explain as soon as possible while I make a cup of tae...

[SeanMacGabhann]

As a major culprit in this sort of behaviour, I'll pipe up on this..

I have no idea why I do it more often than I used to , and it irritates me as much as it does you, believe me

It's something that a 2 fingered typist like myself does when he is typing faster than ability allows. I try to correct it as often as I can but I still leave too many in

so - mea culpa

[Keef]

Is that it, a typing mistake?

I always assumed it was some feckin Irish shite! ;-)

[Tony.London Suburbs]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

Thanks Sean.

> so - mea culpa

Ah! very good! U R informing mea that you would also lyke a cup of tae...Yes(!)(?)

[Tony.London Suburbs]

I'm not saying I don't lyke it,lyke...

[RosieH]

yes, is just a really common typo surely (Word will autocorrect but admin hasn't set up that facility on here yet...)

[Tony.London Suburbs]

RosieH Wrote:

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> yes, is just a really common typo surely (Word

> will autocorrect but admin hasn't set up that

> facility on here yet...)

I'm a technological imbecile of the highest degree but can't buy this for a second!

Totally illogical that hundreds of times I've seen Guys "accidently" hit the 6th Middle Key instead of the 3rd Key on the left? and never do it for any other word?

Once in a while you might see adn for and or aer for are but that is obviously a typo but to regularly see this and it being a typo is odds of Billionss-to-One.:))

[Keef]

My most common one is to hit T instead of Y, so I get words like actuallt.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

My most common mistake late at night is having the lights out to watch TV then transferring to the Computer to write something and not seeing the keys as clearly as I could see them with the inevitable poor spelling.

[HonaloochieB]

I thought it was a northern dialect thing.

[*Bob*]

Enough,Already!--"Teh"/"The"....

Tony.. If Sean absolutely promises not to type 'teh' instead of 'the' - can we expect a space after on comma on your part?

Surely,that 's not too much teh ask?

[Dulwich_ Park_ Fairy]

Does anyone know when people started to get lose and loose mixed up?

[snorky]

Wkiipedia

[LuvPeckham]

I suffer with teh dreaded finger dyslexia too .... yet I type with all 10 fingers on one of those ergonomic split keyboards and still do it...

I think sometimes my fingers move faster then my brain (which isn't hard to do I must add)

Luv

[Tony.London Suburbs]

*Bob* Wrote:

Tony.. If Sean absolutely promises not to type 'teh' instead of 'the' - can we expect a space after on comma on your part?

Surely,that 's not too much teh ask?

Well only if you also promise "Bob" but I'm going to do my best, even if it looks silly to me.::o

[HonaloochieB]

With me it's 'Dera' for 'Dear'. Do it every time.

[giggirl]

Surely it's nothing more sinister than a typo.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> With me it's 'Dera' for 'Dear'. Do it every time.

and Vera for Vear?

How do you address a letter to Dame Vera Lynn(passed her turning last week, beat that!)...(?)

[Tony.London Suburbs]

giggirl Wrote:

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> Surely it's nothing more sinister than a typo.

What a thousand times by a thousand different people every day on their phones or on the Net?

How come they don't regularly transpose the 2 letters of any other everyday word like and or are ?

[RosieH]

seriously Tony you paranoid maniac - go into the autocorrect options on Word and you'll see it, right there

sorry, you're not a maniac, but have you had too much coffee this morning?

[????]

Quite often when I'm typing "I couldn't agree with you more" it comes out with "That's a load of fooking sh1te"

[jumpinjackflash]

does anyone else type 'Kind Retards' at the end of an email?

[Strawbs]

I do it sometimes with the - teh but mostly with thanks tahks.. Its just a bad typing habit is all..

[dukesdenver]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> I thought it was a northern dialect thing.

No love, that's t'

I am prone to 'ont he' and 'int he', I must admit...

[Applespider]

Dulwich_ Park_ Fairy Wrote:

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> Does anyone know when people started to get lose

> and loose mixed up?

No idea but it's one of my biggest bugbears when reading online. Perhaps people have always got them confused but didn't have the opportunity to write them publically until recently? But they're pronounced different so who knows!

I'm guilty of hitting teh instead of the occasionally too and I touch type properly for the most part. I'll usually go back and correct it unless I'm in 'stream of consciousness' mode.