Talk:1488

Additional occurences

• 2018 December 4, Patrick Strickland, Alerta! Alerta!: Snapshots of Europe's Anti-fascist Struggle, AK Press, →ISBN:

  THE POETRY OF FASCISM
  On the damp morning of March 14, LSNS members were visiting poor families in need of financial assistance. They distributed three checks—each of which was for 1,488 euros. […]

• 2021 July 27, Gisela Pereyra Doval, Gastón Souroujon, Global Resurgence of the Right: Conceptual and Regional Perspectives, Routledge, →ISBN:

  He had helped “struggling” families with checks for 1488 euros: 14 refers to the supremacist slogan (“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”) and 88 is a code for Heil Hitler (twice the eighth letter […]

• 2021 November 30, Sarah D. Nilsen, Sarah E. Turner, White Supremacy and the American Media, Routledge, →ISBN:

  "[...] white supremacists will even price racist merchandise, such as tshirts or compact discs, for $14.88” (“14/88” 2020).

• 2022 October 25, Shane Burley, No Pasaran: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis, AK Press, →ISBN:

  ... of the cross-burners became members of the white supremacist underground called The Order or the Silent Brotherhood (Bruder Schweigen), from whom the “14 words” slogan and the “14/88” numerology still popular with neo-Nazis derived.

RFV discussion: January–February 2023

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1488

Related to white supremacy etc. It would be nice to see citations of usage at Citations:1488. DCDuring (talk) 23:38, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

This is easily attestable, but the part of speech is wrong. If anything, this should be categorized as a symbol. Binarystep (talk) 01:07, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

It's an interjection and symbol. When someone just posts a comment such as "1488", I'd say that's an interjection, as it's similar to something like "Heil". Theknightwho (talk) 01:16, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

The 2 cites show it used as a noun. DCDuring (talk) 05:48, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

I'm not sure what part of speech to consider this (maybe symbol or particle) ... the number / symbol can be used adjective-ish-ly, or as an interjection, or noun-ish-ly, or used as part of e.g. a username, or set as the price of something, etc: on Talk:1488 I put books which mention cases of people pricing something at $14.88, or giving out 1,488 euros, to make the signal. (The variability in how it can be written also mildly complicates things, since it can also be found as 14 88, 14/88, even reversed as 88 14, or the parts 14 and 88 can be found separately.) - -sche (discuss) 06:41, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Won't we know better when we have cites for some particular PoSes? To me it seems we have two noun cites so far. (We have numerous English noun entries that consist solely of numbers or of numbers and punctuation.) There may be other PoSes attestable as well. How folks might use these reportedly, but non-attestably, might belong in usage notes or WP, though usually fiction writers give us attestation in dialogue for supposed use in naturalistic speech. DCDuring (talk) 14:58, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

It is a symbol representing a slogan. I think we should list this as a symbol, just like Translingual 88. A case can be made for also classifying this as translingual, since it has found traction among Nazis elsewhere too.^[1][2][3]  --Lambiam 21:35, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

If the cites only show use as an English noun, how would we know either that it is a symbol (any more than any other string of characters) or that it is Translingual? DCDuring (talk) 21:46, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

You don’t need to keep making the same point. No-one is suggesting we shouldn’t cite it. Theknightwho (talk) 20:09, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Looks  cited Ioaxxere (talk) 04:21, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

RFV Passed. Ioaxxere (talk) 22:21, 16 February 2023 (UTC)