"teh" + adj./v.

[Benjamin Zimmer]

Blogs these days are full of examples of "teh", an intentional misspelling
of "the" arising from leetspeak (hacker code). Unlike "the", "teh" often
modifies an adjective (teh sexy, teh crazy, teh funny, teh wacky, teh
lame, teh gay), or an intransitive verb (teh suck, teh rock, teh rule).
The resulting quasi-NP tends to be used predicatively ("he is teh sexy" =
"he is sexy", "you are teh rule" = "you rule", etc.).

Wikipedia illuminates the history of "teh", tracing its popularity to the
website Something Awful and its parodic hacker persona "JeffK" (also
evidently responsible for popularizing such epithets as "asshat").

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teh
"Teh" is a common typo for the. [...] In the online slang known as Leet,
it is deliberately used in place of _the_, and occasionally spelled _t3h_
with a numeral 3 in place of _e_. _Teh_ and _t3h_ are the traditional
spellings of the in the phrase "ph34r t3h ..." (Fear the...).
Besides being an alternate spelling of _the_, _teh_ also has grammatical
properties not generally applied to _the_. It can be used with proper
names, as in "teh John." [...]
Furthermore, _teh_ is sometimes used in front of a verb, turning it into a
species of compound noun chain. The best-known example of this is the word
_suck_. Thus, the phrase _this sucks_ can be converted into _this is teh
suck_; the word _pwn_ can be similarly converted (_teh pwn_). The above
phrases are primarily used by the gaming community, and often intended
humorously.
In English, _the_ can be used as an intensifier for the superlative form
of adjectives; compare "that is best" and "that is _the_ best." _Teh_ has
a similar use as an intensifier for unmodified adjectives, generally
marking a sarcastic tone. For example, "that is _teh_ lame" translates as
"that is _the lamest_." [...]
The widespread popularity of purposefully using Teh on Internet forums and
other forms of communication most likely stemmed from the fictitious
character JeffK (created by humour website Something Awful), who often
mispelled words on his homepage in a parody on a certain stereotype of
Internet user.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffk
Jeff K. is one of several fictitious update writers for the popular humor
website Something Awful. Created by Something Awful founder Rich "Lowtax"
Kyanka on May 28, 1999 on PlanetQuake, Jeff K. is a parody of teenage
Internet users, particularly script kiddies and online game players.
Jeff K. once claimed to be a "l33t hax0r" (an "elite hacker" in leetspeak)
but is now a "computar consultant becuase hax0ring si illegal" (sic). Jeff
K.'s writing style is characterized by generally horrible spelling,
flipping the positions of letters in words, and alternately writing in all
caps and all lowercase (contrary to popular perception, he did not
generally replace letters with numbers as in leetspeak). He is also known
for combining words to create insults such as "clownboat", "slobbergoat"
and "asshat", and bad web design skills. He has coined several phrases
that have entered more widespread usage in other Internet communities,
most notably the use of teh*, as in the phrase "teh funney" (now often
misspelled further as "teh funnay"). Although the term "asshat" predates
Jeff K., he certainly popularized it, and it has begun appearing as
pejorative slang in other online forums like fark.com. [...]
The name "Jeff K." might be a reference to Sun software engineer Jeff
Kesselman, who is notorious for making frequent spelling mistakes, such as
"teh" and similar, in newsgroup and forum posts.
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Though "JeffK" dates to 1999, exx. of "teh funny/funney/funnay", "teh
suck", etc. don't begin showing up in the Usenet archive until early 2001.


--Ben Zimmer