Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn’t translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.
Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.
i18n I know it’s not technically an acronym but what a fucking obscure way to write a word that’s going to be constantly around non-english speakers. All the other ones in this family are also quite obnoxious but i18n is especially awful.
There’s a11y and l10n. What else is there?
Somewhat similar: k8s
Kubernetes is fine because it’s easy to keep track of, it looks and pronounces similar to the real word.
O11y for “observability”, though, that one’s pretty rough. And people trying to make the pronunciation “ollie” make me see red.
Kates
What’s a11y?
“Accessibility.” It mainly refers to computer accessibility (like websites and apps). Ironic that a common word for accessibility is inaccessible to people who don’t know what it means
Accessibility
I learned about a11y like a year ago, and thought it was 1337 speak for ally until I looked it up, and only then (like 20 years after first seeing it) did I realize what i18n meant.
Never heard of that one, what is it and when would it be used?
Internationalization, basically making your thing accessible in other languages and cultural customs (like twelve and a half being 12,5 and anything related to fucking dates).
We will never know…
It’s a numeronym!
I agree, very weird. I thought i18n was some weird sound thing that I hadn’t figured out yet. “‘eye-eighteen-ehn’ isn’t too far from ‘internationalization’, I guess”