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Enough With 'Teh'

1. It's an annoying word. I don't want to be mean, and I hate to be the one to tell you, but when use 'teh,' it's not cute, and it's not funny. It's just....sort of....sad. Like you're trying way too hard to be cutesy and it's not quite coming off.

2. There's something very strange about 'teh' as slangy, cutesy web-speak in so far as I have almost never seen anyone under the age of 30 use it.* At this point, I suspect that if teh kids ever used it, they've long since stopped.

3. Lolcats are still allowed to use it because, despite the presence of whatever strange magic that allows them to speak English, they are, after all, cats, and as such their tiny brains cannot be expected to formulate more cleverly cutesy language patterns.** Humans, however, should be expected to come up with something a bit more creative.

4. That is all.








*"Wait," you may be thinking. "What about Penny Arcade? I'm sure I've seen the word 'teh' used there." Sure, but you know what? I checked, and Jerry Holkins is 32 years old. Our boy was born on February 6th, 1976, i.e. during Teh Ford Administration.
**I love the Miami kitten. I loved all the cats my parents had back in Michigan when I was growing up, too, but I have never had the impression that any of them were geniuses.


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