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Article title is "Archeologists Discover a Perfectly Preserved 4,000-Year-Old Tomb in Egypt" - which I surmise due to some title restriction yielded the "4k" ab
by Zenst 8y ago
Article title is "Archeologists Discover a Perfectly Preserved 4,000-Year-Old Tomb in Egypt" - which I surmise due to some title restriction yielded the "4k" abbreviation. Let's remember - there are people who depend upon text to speech. Let's think of them when it comes to abbreviations and how they sound phonetically when used outside the AV domain.
4000 years ago is also around the earliest estimated age of the Llangernyw Yew tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llangernyw_Yew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llangernyw_Yew
One subject in which the abvitiation of years is not recommended, for phonetics alone.
- chimpburger 8y ago"k" is an internationally standardized prefix. Anyone on this site would know it means 1000.
- Zenst 8y agoAgreed that as a unit prefix which is prepended for an abbreviation within the audience here, it's a bit of a go to. But with the number 4, the connotation wavers on first sight, even here due to AV biasing at play. Let alone the phonetic fun that combination yields. Sorry as I spent most of the day pedanting over UI's and clearly not switched out of that mode - my bad. Sorry.
- gpm 8y ago4k should read out as "4" "kay" perfectly fine by text to speech software, which is just as unambiguous as the non-text-to-speech version.
- Zenst 8y agoSome you need to add a space, as in "4 k" as "4k" sounds different. Talking old kit here, but still used. Heck, even Stephen Hawkins used an old voice kit audio interface, whilst the front end got many upgrades, he stuck with the old texas voice chip affair as people ended up associating it with him. He had a choice of upgrading, BT even reproduced a synthesis of his original voice that could be used, but he stuck with what worked well for him for years. Some people, don't have those choices though. But then legacy tech is and always will be a PITA support wise, in any field of development.
- fallingfrog 8y agoHow did it pronounce 4K for you- “four kay” or “fork” or something else? This seems a valid concern to me, something to think about.