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Using the same abbreviation scheme as "internationalization" -> "i18n", the word "to" can be abreviated as "t0o". (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Also "accessibility" is abbreviated as "a11y" which I think is very charming.

And "two" and "too" both abbreviate to "t1o", which I feel does more to confuse the situation.

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[–] 19 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Wow TIL, I have been staring at i18n for decades and never really investigated what it meant lol

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 9 months ago

    haha same. I went years knowing from technical osmosis that it meant "supporting other languages" but I never knew what it represented or why it had numbers in it. There are so many acronyms in tech I think inevitably some of them fall by the wayside for everyone.

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    • [–] 16 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    motherfucker → m10r
    asshole → a5e
    buttmonkey → b8y
    scumbag → s5g
    spankmankerjankwanker → /s(.ank(er)?)*/

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    • [–] 30 points 9 months ago* (8 children)

    I’m sorry but that isn’t abbreviation, that’s straight up encryption

    Edit: ok I was lost, I read the Wikipedia page and it makes sense now lol

    i18n: 18 stands for the number of letters between the first i and the last n in the word internationalization

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    What psychopath invented this nonsense? I want to send them my next therapist bill.

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    • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    “To” becomes “t0o,” but “too” is “t1o.”

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    That would be...what, an ampliviation scheme? (since it's longer than the original word)

    A4y, t2s i0s n1t p10y r6e a1d t3s m2h l4r t0o c5e.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Anyway, this is not practically readable and takes much longer to compose.

    (I spent way too long trying to read this, and ended up cheating on the last word.)

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    • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    is this why transaction is tx?

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    • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Intrnachnliseishn. Acksessibilitii. Who cares about the letters in between. In english there is no real match between a written word and how it sounds anyway. /s

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    • [–] 0 points 9 months ago*

    \/\/04# d00dz!!!!!!1!!!1one!!

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