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Yeah, I find this kind of abbreviation annoying. But there's a few words that are commonly abbreviated like this: i18n -> internationalization l10n -> localiz
by gilgoomesh 6y ago
Yeah, I find this kind of abbreviation annoying. But there's a few words that are commonly abbreviated like this:
i18n -> internationalization
l10n -> localization
g11n -> globalization
l12y -> localizability
a11y -> accessibility
It bothers me because my brain does not jump from the abbreviation to the underlying word. I really need to stop and think about each one. And I get the numbers wrong when writing them.
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- LifeIsBio 6y agoThere was a period of a few months when I was first learning about web apps where I saw "i18n" multiple times. The first time I came across it, I tried to sound it out: i18n -> I-one-eight-n -> iwonation I was already a couple of rabbit holes deep at the time and didn't have the mental capacity to look it up and wrap my head around yet another new concept. "Oh boy." I thought to myself, "One more word I've never heard of, probably representing some complicated CS concept." I was so annoyed when I finally found out what was going on.