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xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers (infosec.pub)

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xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers

Title text:

In 1899, people were walking around shouting '23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3184/

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[–] Lightsong@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Deaf people - 258 (very interesting) and 84 (there's no good direct translation for this)

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I had never considered deaf slang before. Is there somewhere to read up on this?

[–] Lightsong@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hmm, it's hard to think of good resources for this. It's just kinda part of community. You could google asl slang and look around in YouTube or something. Or learn asl (or your country's sign language) and join the community.

Found a link with a short quip about 258 lol

https://258hub.ca/about/

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't get the 258 and 84 one, also deaf.

[–] Lightsong@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

258 = very interesting. 2 being v, you sign "very", and then using 5 into 8 from ahead of your face/nose area for "interest" sign.

And for 84, try and sign it kinda side way. Kinda like "terrible" sign, but you would say it after crazy or whatever happened.

Like "oh really? 84!"

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ah then it's probably a different sign language, mine does not do it like that.

[–] Lightsong@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I was referring to ASL, what's your sign language?