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
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.
True, forgot about that one. I really hat this style of abbreviation^^
F3d i0t f1r y1u.
You’ll be a hero at work when your coworkers see how efficient your commit messages have become.
Aaarg!!
you h2e it?
Wait. That is why it’s called i18n!? Never knew that.
This one is terrible IMO. A11y is ironically very inaccessible unless you’re aware of this unintuitive system.
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.
Also k8s for Kubernetes.
r13y (reproducibility)
I’m a programmer but fuck I hate this so much.
Just start using it for everything and confuse everyone… I mean E6E