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

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      buttmonkey → b8y

      I’d read b8y as “baby”, so absolutely ❤ this. Was this intended, am I an idiot for not reading the others as anything?

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    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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      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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        Whoa, that’s very impressive! The only one you missed was “p10y,” which is in fact “particularly.” (“Practically” would be “p9y.”) But honestly that’s still amazing.

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      Hmm, to my knowledge, tx generally means “transmit”, as opposed to rx – “receive”.

      I don’t think, there is much logic to it…

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    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