teh for the or instead of the, am i missing something here? i seem to be seeing this alot on the net lately,any explanations out there? is this another all our bases are belong to us thing? im not a proof reader just wondering is all...guess this a rant since i do find it annoying...
My left hand fires quicker than my right, sometimes?
I'm an English teacher. I learned to stop being annoyed by grammar and such on the web a long time ago. I figure people are "talking" and the rules that govern spoken English are sometimes a bit different from written English.
About the only thing that grates me is when someone posts and uses NO punctuation.
(FWIW -- not using capital letters annoys many people as well. )
jonnienye, very very common typing error. It's not something like "axing me a question" vs. "asking me a question"... "teh" is honest mistake, "axing" is purposely changed during the years :)
Happens to me all the time. Actually my biggest problem, though, is typing next letter before hitting space for next word, lik ethis... Firefox has a live spellchecker that works great for me and saves me a lot of grief.
lol,oh im the worst! ill be the first to admit it! actually im murderous with a keyboard...thanks all,apparently i didnt miss anything. since that whole PWNED thing...
Actually, a lot of people will purposely type "teh" to be funny ... or at least a couple years ago they did. The fad has mostly passed, so these days if you see it it's likely a typo.
But yes, for a while it was part of "internet speak": "that 1337 hax0r pwns teh int0rweb funnay!"
The dissolution of the english language is happening all around us.
There was a news peice over here a couple of years ago how exam boards were considering grading papers even if the student used "text language" to write it in. Example:
I fink U iz wkd.
2b R nt 2b.
etc...
It never went ahead luckily as common sense prevailed for once but it seems a tough fight to reclaim correct spelling and grammar.
teh for the or instead of the, am i missing something here? i seem to be seeing this alot on the net lately,any explanations out there? is this another all our bases are belong to us thing? im not a proof reader just wondering is all...guess this a rant since i do find it annoying...
That's doesn't bother me nearly as much as when people type 'a lot' as one word. ;-)
teh for the or instead of the, am i missing something here? i seem to be seeing this alot on the net lately,any explanations out there? is this another all our bases are belong to us thing? im not a proof reader just wondering is all...guess this a rant since i do find it annoying...
That's doesn't bother me nearly as much as when people type 'a lot' as one word. ;-)
~Terry
reckon i knew that was coming....hows the saying go- "if ya stick ya neck out..."
I frequently have one finger faster than the other. I regularly type thnax instead of thanks, and similarly juxtaposed letters. I can spell, I just can't type. You will often see my posts have had edits, because I have to go back and correct the misspelled words.
teh for the or instead of the, am i missing something here? i seem to be seeing this a lot on the net lately,any explanations out there? is this another all our bases are belong to us thing? im not a proof reader just wondering is all...guess this a rant since i do find it annoying...
Actually, a lot of people will purposely type "teh" to be funny ... or at least a couple years ago they did. The fad has mostly passed, so these days if you see it it's likely a typo.
But yes, for a while it was part of "internet speak": "that 1337 hax0r pwns teh int0rweb funnay!"
