Programmer humor

[yesthattom]

i18n ?

l10n ?

Maybe I should call myself Tom L8i.

:-)

Comments

[mrfantasy.livejournal.com]

Sure.

--Mike R6i

[slinkr.livejournal.com]

You should have seen the confusion around my office when my boss abbreviated our Framingham, MA office as f8m in an e-mail.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

And, of course D38Rs (http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html).

[awfief.livejournal.com]

Only if you want to get l8 by geeks.

I'm just happy being a MySexual. (MySQL)

[jss]

I think it'd be kinda r8s, but you could.

Would that make your first book The P6e of S4m and N5k A12n?

[tn-grrl.livejournal.com]

My resident programmer couldn't translate this humor for me. :(

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Committees that focus on "Internationalization" of software (i.e. non-European alphabets) abbreviate the word to I18n. That is, "I", followed by 18 letters, then the letter "n". People that work on "localization" (the ability for a software package to have a "select what language you'd like to see the menus/prompts/etc in" have started abbreviating their work to be L10n.

Thus, my last name should be L8i.

[tn-grrl.livejournal.com]

Thanks! My home programmer sez he really, really, really knows all programmers should deal with internationalization/localization, but he doesn't - thus the lack of immediate recognition.
- M5a?

[ckd]

Surely that'd be T1m L8i?

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I think T11i is better.

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Jennifer 8. Lee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_8._Lee)'s lawyer called. She'd like to speak with you.