begin quoting James G. Sack (jim) as of Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:42:35PM -0800: [snip] > Okay, you've probably never seen it before, but there are several places > where long words are abbreviated by first letter, number of intervening > letters, last letter. > > All of these have wikipedia entries, I think: > > I18N > L10N > C14N (no page yet, but almost) see Canonicalization
This is one of the *stupidest* means of abbreviation possible. It's amusing as a joke, but the fact that it's being taken seriously by so many people is just, well, wrong. -- I m2n, w1o in t3r r3t m2d w3d do t2s? Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
