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Relatedly, "i18n" is hard for non-native speakers to understand too, how ironically apt.
by DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
Relatedly, "i18n" is hard for non-native speakers to understand too, how ironically apt.
- accoil 3y agoIt's hard for native speakers too. Numerical contractions aren't part of normal English (i.e they don't seem to exist outside of IT).
- Kerrick 3y agoNumerical ones don’t seem to exist outside of IT, but other fields do the same strategy of abbreviating common long words by keeping only a letter or two. The non-numerical way is to just replace the rest with an “x” like “txn” for “transaction” in finance or “pax” for “passengers” in transportation or “sx” for “symptoms” in medicine.
- accoil 3y agoNeat, that's one mystery solved. I have seen "x" used like that, but didn't know how it worked.
- ryokeken 3y agonative speaker of assembly language?
- worik 3y agoI have dreamt in VAX assembly
- DaiPlusPlus 3y agoIs it still okay to make "nothing sucks like a VAX" jokes? (I kid, I think VMS has a better design than Linux)
- worik 3y ago> Is it still okay to make "nothing sucks like a VAX" jokes? Please! I was a stage II CS student learning assembly programming on a VAX simulator. Wrote a VAX simulator, in VAX assembly then ran VAX assembly programmes on it. Was a lot of fun. The dreams were weird tho