• who@feddit.orgEnglish
    2 months

    And a terrible way to abbreviate things, IMHO.

  • apparia@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2 months

    And “a11y” is the most obscure – dare I say… inaccessible – fucking abbreviation of “accessibility”. For years I only saw them in passing and assumed both these things were like, quirkily-named Javascript frameworks or niche standards documents or something, despite knowing quite well the concepts they actually refer to.

    • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2 months

      Minorities usually refer as allies (singular “ally”) to people who support their needs even if they are not part of the minority.

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2 months

        Yeah, some folks even say “ally” with their mouth, when they’re talking about accessibility/a11y…

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 months

      It’s an abbreviation scheme which represents a word as its first and last letters, and a number to indicate the count of letters in the middle which are missing.

      “Internationalisation” = 20 characters long, so becomes “i18n”

  • lucullus@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2 months

    The important part where this scheme came from:

    According to Tex Texin, the first numeronym of this kind was “S12n”, the electronic mail account name given to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) employee Jan Scherpenhuizen by a system administrator because his surname was too long to be an account name. The use of such numeronyms became part of DEC corporate culture.[3]

    So it was a technical limitation gotten corporate naming scheme.

  • Die Mart Die@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2 months

    This makes me wonder if there’s a h33a abbreviation…

    h33a

    Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is a humorously artificially extended word for “fear of/aversion to long words”

  • sober_monk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    I have to highlight the best part about this, because it’s hilarious: apparently, the first numeronym was “S12n”, the email username of Jan Scherpenhuizen, because his actual name exceeded the character limit (this was back in the 80s).

  • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
    2 months

    One of my friends got a penicillin IV at the hospital, and the machine shortened it to “PENI5”.