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New horror for txt spk haters - numeronyms

17 December 2010, 10:34

I've been studying the O'Reilly book "Dojo: The Definitive Guide", for a clientco web app, and have been seeing a few bizarre shortened words such as "i18n" and "a11y".

Turns out these are called numeronyms (and those two are short for "internationalization" and "accessibility" respectively)

Anyone seen many of these? have they been around for a while, maybe a spin-off from text speak?

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17 December 2010, 10:40

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17 December 2010, 10:45

I've seen i18n used quite a lot but never a11y.
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17 December 2010, 10:51

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17 December 2010, 11:13

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#6

17 December 2010, 11:37

If we must simplify why not go back to Egyptians?. I would enjoy sending letters to an insurance company consisting of little doodles of elephants and things.

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