Humans don't read words letter by letter, you recognize the whole word pattern. Abbreviations are actually slowing you down on this point, at least the first ti

Humans don't read words letter by letter, you recognize the whole word pattern. Abbreviations are actually slowing you down on this point, at least the first times you encounter each new one. Having a longest but more usual term will take you least time of reading treatment. Autocompletion will rarely ask you to type more than four keystrokes for selecting any arbitrary long term. Meaningful terms in context often happen to be far more easier to grep. Except for sounding far more impenetrable to the lay man, there is not much left to these H4x0r turns. Of course jargon curse is not a prerogative of CS, this is a common spontaneous social behaviour.