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> a11n I'm not sure what this means, assuming weird auto-correct from authoritarian? > An a11n regime needs the buy-in of private leadership because... Only

• Tyr42 5y ago
  They don't want to type the letters in the middle, so they dropped them and put a count of how many letters were dropped. I'm mostly familiar with a11y meaning accessibility.
  • 0xcde4c3db 5y ago
    I believe this pattern was originally popularized by "i18n" for "internationalization", partly for convenience and partly to have an identifier that would fit in legacy systems.
    • adolph 5y ago
      Numeronym: According to Tex Texin, the first numeronym of this kind was "S12n", the electronic mail account name given to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) employee Jan Scherpenhuizen by a system administrator because his surname was too long to be an account name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym Agree that i18n cemented it in the letter count form (homonym form is older, like K9 for canine).
      • mdp2021 5y ago
        ('K9' is homophone for 'canine'. To be homonyms, two terms should have different meaning - if two terms share the same name and meaning, they are the same...)
• ByThyGrace 5y ago
  > a11n Perhaps it's like i18n, except it's the will of the dictator that which gets translated for the masses.