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hi i'm a software engineer and i worked in the web for a good 8 years before i ever realized what the abbreviations i18n and l10n (internationalization and localization) stood for
literally i knew what they were *about*, but thought the numbers had something to do with some funky standards body or some shit
numeronyms of this form are bad so so so so bad don't
just
don't
@tcql How do you get "ocalizatio" from "10"?
@synaesthetica it's 10 letters.
@ng0 @synaesthetica lol right! that's why i think it's terrible! nobody can intuitively understand what it means
@tcql @synaesthetica wild.
thanks!
@tcql @synaesthetica wow! that's the only system behind the 10,11,18 etc? Just the number of letters? I knew what they are for a long time, but I never looked into why exactly these weird names were picked.