• papalonian@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Always wondered what the supposed point of the alphanumeric spelling of “private” was supposed to be…

    • remotelove
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      3 months ago

      There are probably multiple people that want to use that as a vanity tag number so alphanumeric variation is a way to get around that.

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          3 months ago

          Good point. It wouldn’t make any sense whatsoever in that case unless they are just trying to immitate 90’s era leet-speak, for whatever reason.

    • anguo
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      3 months ago

      Maybe to make it look like an actual license plate on first look?