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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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[–] Moolam@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That only works in English though and while it does have a pun, I dont see it gaining any cult status...

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

1337 also only works in English.

The cult status is a good point, though.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

1337 also only works in English.

What are you on about. It's shortened from "elite." You think that only works in English?

Really?

Afrikaans:elite Akan:nnipa atitiriw Albanian:elite Amharic:ልሂቃን Arabic:نخبة Armenian:էլիտար Assamese:অভিজাত শ্ৰেণী Aymara:élite ukax mä jach’a uñacht’äwiwa Azerbaijani:elit Bambara:elite (jamanatigiba). Basque:elitea Belarusian:эліта Bengali:অভিজাত Bhojpuri:अभिजात वर्ग के लोग के Bosnian:elita Bulgarian:елит Catalan:elit Cebuano:elite Chichewa:osankhika Chinese (Simplified):精英 Chinese (Traditional):精英 Corsican:elite Croatian:elita Czech:elita Danish:elite Divehi:އެލައިޓް އެވެ Dogri:अभिजात वर्ग Dutch:elite Esperanto:elito Estonian:eliit Ewe:ame ŋkutawo Filipino:elite Finnish:eliitti French:élite Frisian:elite Galician:elite Ganda:abakulu Georgian:ელიტა German:Elite Goan Konkani:अभिजात वर्ग Greek:αφρόκρεμα Guarani:élite rehegua Gujarati:ભદ્ર Haitian Creole:elit Hausa:fitattu Hawaiian:elite Hebrew:עִלִית Hindi:अभिजात वर्ग Hmong:cov neeg tseem ceeb Hungarian:elit Icelandic:Elite Igbo:ndị isi Iloko:elite ti Indonesian:elite Irish:mionlach Italian:elite Japanese:エリート Javanese:elit Kannada:ಗಣ್ಯರು Kazakh:элита Khmer:វរជន Kinyarwanda:intore Korean:엘리트 Krio:elit dɛn Kurdish (Kurmanji):elît Kurdish (Sorani):نوخبە Kyrgyz:элита Lao:ຊັ້ນສູງ Latin:electi Latvian:elite Lingala:elite ya bato ya lokumu Lithuanian:elitas Luxembourgish:elite Macedonian:елита Maithili:अभिजात वर्ग Malagasy:sangany Malay:elit Malayalam:വരേണ്യവർഗം Maltese:elite Maori:rangatira Marathi:अभिजन Mizo:elite te an ni Mongolian:элит Myanmar (Burmese):အထက်တန်းစား Nepali:कुलीन Northern Sotho:maemo a godimo Norwegian:elite Odia (Oriya):ଅଭିଜିତ Oromo:elite jedhamuun beekama Pashto:اشراف Persian:نخبه Polish:elita Portuguese:elite Punjabi:ਕੁਲੀਨ Quechua:elite nisqa Romanian:elită Russian:элита Samoan:tagata maualuluga Sanskrit:अभिजात वर्ग Scots Gaelic:mionlach Serbian:елита Sesotho:phahameng Shona:elite Sindhi:اشرافيه Sinhala:ප්රභූ Slovak:elita Slovenian:elita Somali:akhyaarta Spanish:élite Sundanese:élit Swahili:wasomi Swedish:elit Tajik:элита Tamil:உயரடுக்கு Tatar:элита Telugu:ఉన్నతవర్గం Thai:ผู้ลากมากดี Tigrinya:ኤሊት ዝበሃሉ ምዃኖም ይፍለጥ Tsonga:va xiyimo xa le henhla Turkish:seçkinler Turkmen:elita Ukrainian:еліта Urdu:اشرافیہ Uyghur:سەرخىللار Uzbek:elita Vietnamese:ưu tú Welsh:elitaidd Xhosa:abaphezulu Yiddish:עליט Yoruba:olutayo Zulu:elite Hebrew:עִלִית Javanese:elit

I'm not gonna format that but as you can see there's quite a few languages which use essentially the same word, and thus it works quite as well.