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I dislike numeronyms. They may be shorter to type, but unlike acronyms, where the acronym itself is a valid pronounciation, numeronyms cannot usually be pronoun
by Feathercrown 2y ago
I dislike numeronyms. They may be shorter to type, but unlike acronyms, where the acronym itself is a valid pronounciation, numeronyms cannot usually be pronounced. The only way to know how is to know what the original word is, so you have to ask every time.
- adolph 2y agoMy kates auth zen operator doesn’t support I ate teenen. It works ok as long as there’s nobody named Katherine.
- incognito124 2y agoeye teen n
- griftrejection 2y agoIt will never cease to be funny how inaccessible "a11y" is if you don't already know what it means. Mike Judge couldn't even make this stuff up.
- card_zero 2y agoProbably anorthography: a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion.
- hollerith 2y agoIf you don't already know, you use a search engine to find out. (Lack of an obvious pronunciation is a good objection, tho.)
- cowsandmilk 2y agoThat doesn’t change the fact that it is inaccessible for no gain.
- NeoTar 2y agoIt’s shorter to say (4 vs 6 syllables), and to write - how is that ‘no gain’?
- MrVandemar 2y agoFalse economy. The trade-off between "saving some syllables" and the concomitant problems it causes is not worth it. To this day I don't know what Eli8 means, and I'm not going to even bother to look it up. It's not communication.
- MereInterest 2y ago> To this day I don't know what Eli8 means, and I'm not going to even bother to look it up. It's not communication. My first guess would have been a username for somebody named Elliot. Given that it occurred in this thread, probably not a correct guess.
- NeoTar 2y agoCommunication requires thought and input from both sides - if I use a numeric abbreviation with someone who is unfamiliar with it, I am communicating badly. I think where we differ is that I see such abbreviations as no worse than any other - TLAs (three letter acronyms) can also be as impenetrable.
- nemetroid 2y agoI always thought you'd still pronounce it as the original word. How do you pronounce it? Aeleveny?
- NeoTar 2y agoYep - pretty-much, aye-el-ev-en-why although I may have miscounted the syllables in eleven in my parent post. It's most pronounced in aye-ate-een-en, internationalization is a word I find myself stumbling when saying in full.
- carlob 2y ago>(Lack of an obvious pronunciation is a good objection, tho.) ally?
- cmcaleer 2y agoOr the writer could keep their writing more accessible by using the word accessibility, understood by hundreds of millions of people, instead of some meme term understood by maybe thousands.
- NeoTar 2y agoI18n is 4 syllables, internationalisation 7. It may not be pronounceable, but many abbreviations are not, and it’s still faster. But yes, like every abbreviation, do use the full word the first time you use it “Considering the topic of internationalisation (i18n)…”
- lifthrasiir 2y agoIndeed, it is strictly worse than an abbreviation made by removing the medial part, e.g. intl'n or acc'y, because numeronyms only keep the first and last character.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoI shit you not, the reason I have heard that they are more "accessible" is because the words that get shortened are hard to spell. I assume the real reason is because each of these indecipherable glyphs is a s8h* to identify the "cool" and "woke" (not in the US politics sense but in a more general sense of the word) crowd from the rest. * If you don't know this word, you're not in the club