Stewart Stremler wrote: > 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. >
Right .. I mean I agree it's wrong. It is, however useful as a shorthand symbol within a document or discussion (possibly an extended discussion). Of course, sometimes cute, catchy, or convenient terms just seem to _catch on_, and mob rule (um) rules. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
