Rukle |
The verb rukle (past tense: rukled ) as used by the Internet video game and IRC (Internet Relay Chat) subculture, means to be cool, awesome, or similarly bad-ass. It originated as a typographical error, or typo , of the word rule , but it is now used intentionally by many members of the subculture.
=Etymology=
==Origin Theories==
*The most prominent origin story reports that in the irc channel #sass, a user circumvented the bot opping authentication and quickly proclaimed I rukle! . This became #sass nomenclature for all time to come.
=Leetspeak=
Main article: Leet
Rukle has now become part of the sub-language of gamers called leet (short for elite) speak . While primarily used by gamers, this language is also used by those who commonly partake of Internet Relay Chat programs and other chat mediums such as AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo Messenger.
=Pronunciation=
The term rukle as it is most often encountered in text is pronunced:
=See also=
*Internet slang *Typographical error|
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