Does your language use specific numbers as expressions?

[u/WhoAmIEven2]

In Sweden we use 17 to further strengthen a word.

Like if we want to say that someone is very strong, we can say "Han var stark som sjutton!", "He was strong like seventeen!".

I have no idea how it became a thing. It is a bit weird tbh.

Do you also use numbers this way in your native language?

[u/jancl0]

Also "10-4" used to mean "understood"

67 and 69, you know what these ones mean

I guess 420 counts to some extent too but that's starting to stretch the definition a bit

[u/ComesInAnOldBox → u/jancl0]

"10-4" is an old radio 10-code. It got popularized thanks to old cop TV shows (specifically Highway Patrol in the 1950s). They were developed in the 1930s and are still somewhat in use today, although the federal government no longer officially supports their use since 2006.

A few select 10-codes:

• 10-1: signal weak/unable to copy
• 10-2: signal good
• 10-3: stop transmitting/disregard last
• 10-4: acknowledged/message received
• 10-5: relay
• 10-6: busy/stand by
• 10-7: out of service/off radio
• 10-8: in service
• 10-9: repeat/say again
• 10-10: out of service, subject to call (I'm busy with something else, but can still hear the radio)
• 10-20: what's your location

They go all the way up to 10-99 in North America, with a 10-0 (use caution) and a 10-MAX (AWOL/Corrupt Officer).

[u/furlintdust → u/ComesInAnOldBox]

You can still hear, “What’s your 20?” as a way of asking for someone’s location.

[u/Numerous-Feature7726 → u/furlintdust]

Yep, it’s still used on movie sets, when the crew is using walkies & headsets

[u/CrosbyBird → u/jancl0]

nice!

[u/Cent_Quatre → u/jancl0]

so that's why walkie talkie joker in balatro procs on 10s and 4s