guy who only knows i18n, trembling: and... this 'l33t' you speak of?
echo $(($(echo antidisestablishmentarianism | sed 's/./1+/g')0))
28

its 7 letters longer than the longest non-contrived, non-technical english word wikipedia lists

'why didnt you just use the wc -c command' well. i didnt think of that
okay wrap it up everyone 170 likes is plenty. 3 was also plenty
@mothcompute first you learn how to use regex, then you learn when not to use regex. I haven't gotten to that second part either.
@mothcompute are you against the disestablishment of alonzo church and state?

@TheDarkBomber @mothcompute oh this is a great pun, can I riff?

"You can prove a language is complete two ways. Functional languages, like Haskell, prove equivalence to the lambda calculus; imperative languages prove equivalence to a Turing machine. This is due to the separation of Church and state."

@mothcompute ...it should probably count as technical given its specificity to a single church though!
@mothcompute this might be the first time i've seen someone coubt letters with shell arithmetic AND regex

@mothcompute this was a really interesting way to count characters; I will insist though that:

echo -n antidisestablishmentarianism | wc -c

is more readable…

@mothcompute one of the best things ever

@mothcompute

$ perl -e 'print "l", "e" x 33, "t\n"'
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