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Internationalization (i18n). Localization (l10n). Globalization (g11n). Localizability (l12y).

Mozilla has a good article explaining the distinction: https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2011/12/14/i18n-vs-l10n-whats-...

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Oh god, let's not start a10g words this way.

a10g means "abbreviating" by the w1y.

I promise it will not burn up too many more calories of soylent to just type it out, nor will it take much longer.

What gets me most is whether you have to count all the letters of the word, or just those left out.

J2t t3e l2t o1t

It’s infuriatingly annoying ;-)

https://css-tricks.com/the-ironic-inaccessibility-of-a11y/

a11y looking like ally makes it the only one I don't roll my eyes at... but that only seems clever/memorable because of all of the preceeding awful uses of that abbreviation form.

H0a h0a h0a h0a h0a, I like that.

Oh, it's supposed to be a lowercase “L”? I thought it was a vertical bar (“pipe”). Pipe ten nanoseconds? I wish HN used a more readable font.

Haha yeah I saw this earlier and that's exactly how I read it, I had no idea what it meant and I didn't click. Only now that I'm bored I went back to it- I would never have guessed the actual meaning

The ironic thing about this language is that it is an attempt to be "inclusive" by introducing weird shibboleths that exclude most people.

I was once informed by someone at a big tech that the reason for these "x[n]y" codes is because these words can be hard to spell for non-native speakers of English. Also, they added "a11y" (accessibility) to the list.

I think the real explanation was that these were introduced because "internationalization" is a long word and file path names used to be limited in the 1980s.

These abbreviations are among the stupidest trends in tech. We should learn from the Germans and embrace long words

Aka cute abbreviations that are impossible to remember or understand (c62d).

Like the actual meaning of PCMCIA cards:

People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms!

f4k this crap. Spell it out.

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