Hi, English isn’t my mother tongue so I was asking myself that question since I first encounted a w/… Back then I was like: “What tf does ‘w slash’ stand for?” And when I found out I was like “How, why, and is it any intuitive?” But I never dared to ask that until now

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In programmer lingo we’ll sometimes shorten words with the number of letters in between:

i18n (internationalization) and L10n (localization). I just learned of g11n (globalization), too.

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Wait until you learn about k8s

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No thanks!

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Just start using it for everything and confuse everyone… I mean E6E

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This one is terrible IMO. A11y is ironically very inaccessible unless you’re aware of this unintuitive system.

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Now that I know it though, it’s a good way to distinguish between similar common abbreviations. For instance I know you don’t mean “Actually” even though I’m not sure what you do mean by A11y.

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Accessibility I think :-)

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Also k8s for Kubernetes.

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Wait. That is why it’s called i18n!? Never knew that.

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True, forgot about that one. I really hat this style of abbreviation^^

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T2e, f4t a3t t2t o1e. I r4y h2e t2s s3e o0f a10n^^

F3d i0t f1r y1u.

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Aaarg!!

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You’ll be a hero at work when your coworkers see how efficient your commit messages have become.

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you h2e it?

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d4s (dingus)

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r13y (reproducibility)

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