@nasser I find a11y an even worse offender in that regard

@nasser LOL ooops

@nasser there's i18n (internationalization), l10n (localization), and a11y (accessibility) - same shit.

@nasser god i hate it lol. it's so cryptic. i didnt know what it stood for for the longest time, just knew my chinese font packages were mostlu prefixed with it lol

@nasser THAT'S what that means?!?!? Fucking hell..

@nasser idk, i've spent months of my time and thousands of dollars of my own money adding internationalization to some open source software that previously only did latin1 (not even cyrillic!) and i still shorten it like that

@nasser
it's probably more due to Windows file path restrictions (~250 bytes in total or so?)

@nasser To be fair, the contraction was created decades ago when storage and file name lengths were scarce. I think it's fine for e.g. file names in linux distros, but I don't think we should use the same kind of contraction elsewhere or for other words.

@nasser @frumble NO WAY... THIS is what "18" stands for? OMG… I didn't knew that. 😂

@nasser I also only see these kinds of abbreviations in mainly english speaking software teams. 🤔

@nasser it does neatly avoid the z/s issue though

@nasser I moved from the coding world ~30 years ago & I can’t believe this is still an abbrev still in use.

I particularly can’t believe it’s still up for debate

(I do fondly remember talking w a Microsoft engineer about how German broker every damn menu.)

@nasser I felt it telegraphed the opposite to be on speed dial

@nasser likewise with l10n (localisation) and a11y (accessibility)