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
What psychopath invented this nonsense? I want to send them my next therapist bill.
You mean your t7t b2l?
Some psychopath that loves crosswords.
N0o one is happy about this.
Yeah this is total g7h…
that’s straight up encryption
If it's one-way and destructive, it's more like a hash value than encryption.
True, however when I wrote this I didn't know how it worked and I thought it was reversible :)
I should've seen that t1o could be two or too as well...
Wow TIL, I have been staring at i18n for decades and never really investigated what it meant lol
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.
motherfucker → m10r
asshole → a5e
buttmonkey → b8y
scumbag → s5g
spankmankerjankwanker → /s(.ank(er)?)*/
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?
Still at a loss as to what ""Sk8er Boi" is short for.
"skateboarder"
I am so mad right now
Avril didn't make it obvious enough apparently.
This is actually the least stupid example of this type of abbreviation
It still fucking works wtf
My ESL brain is obliterated
I'm still working on my first one, apparently :/
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"Skateboarding Boiler-room."
“To” becomes “t0o,” but “too” is “t1o.”
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.
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.)
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.
is this why transaction is tx?
Hmm, to my knowledge, tx generally means "transmit", as opposed to rx – "receive".
I don't think, there is much logic to it...
darn. thought i was being smart
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
This, but unironically.
If the word is understandable, screw the spelling. Descriptivists rise up!
\/\/04# d00dz!!!!!!1!!!1one!!
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