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


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