Mystery 1488. What is fourteen / eighty-eight

If somewhere on the Internet in the comments you got the number 1488 (what is this, we now find out), moreover, written through slash - 14/88, then this sign with nothing you do not confuse. Before you a symbol that has a certain popularity in the network. Now it is used by everyone who is not too lazy, and very often - in an ironic manner. However, initially he appeared in the correspondence of modern ultra-radicals: neo-Nazis, neo-fascists and other adherents of right-wing views. Why exactly 1488, what does this number mean , and why suddenly it is popular among young people's correspondence - you will learn from this note.

About the white neo-Nazis and the Internet

Who are these people who seriously use 1488? What is Nazism, you, of course, know. Despite the events of World War II, which showed the impossibility of asserting the superiority of one race over another, the views of the Nazi format continue to flourish in the modern world. White neo-Nazis believe that the mixture of races should be stopped, because the number of representatives of "colored" races has long overtaken the light-skinned population of the planet. As an argument they lead the fact that the growth of mankind has long been carried out at the expense of third world countries, while the birth rate in developed countries, where the predominantly Caucasian race lives, is rapidly decreasing.

Like all modern communities, neo-Nazis are actively using social networks and the Internet to communicate and spread their views. And, of course, like any social formation with its history and principles, neo-Nazis have certain concepts and terms, as well as special notation for them, incomprehensible to others. Especially actual is the existence of such symbolic symbols in the Internet age, where the brevity and capacity of information delivery is often important, for example, in comments or in status in social networks. Therefore it is not surprising that in Internet correspondence so often began to come across 1488. What does this number mean? In fact, these are two numbers - 14 and 88, the symbolism of which we explain below.

1488. What does it mean fourteen

The number fourteen is the number of words in slogans invented by David Lane, a famous American neo-Nazi. Usually, the two following phrases lead, which in the original spelling - in English - consist of 14 words:

• "We must protect the existence of our people and the future of white children"
• "Because the beauty of the White Aryan woman should never disappear from the earth"

The second version pops up in the Russian-speaking community - the initials of Adolf Hitler, implying the first and fourth letters of the Russian alphabet - A and G.

The second part of the slogan is 1488. What is the eighty-eight

88 is a numerical display of the well-known greeting "Heil Hitler", because the letter H in the Latin alphabet is the eighth in a row. David Lane is also the author of the manifesto "88 Commandments". But it is believed that the commandments are therefore also eighty-eight - in order to correlate them with the already known meaning of the symbol 88, brought above.

Swastika on the school desk

What if you found this in your child's correspondence? Is it worth taking action? Remember the school years: on school desks filled with schoolchildren you could see anything, even a swastika. Did any of your classmates become an ardent Nazi? Unlikely.

So, the Internet for modern schoolchildren is the same school desk on which you can write all sorts of nonsense, due to the peculiarities of age and the desire to resist the generally accepted norms. Of course, you can try to explain that you are uncomfortable to know that the teenager uses the sign of 1488 in correspondence, that such behavior in a few years will become ridiculous for him. But it is better to have patience and wait for the teenage maximalism to subside.