start is swedish for start and stopp is swedish for stop. leaving out a single p for i18n reasons does not really make the labels into a foreign language

[–] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In Danish, which the OG image is from, Stop is with only one P. Interestingly it is with two Ps in Norwegian as well.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 2 weeks ago

yeah i just realized it can't be swedish because of the "o/min" text. i thought danish spelled it "slud" though. my biases are showing.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is "i18n" a typo or some term I'm not familiar with?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

it's developer-speak for "internationalization". i didn't want to type it all out on my phone. it's a very stupid abbreviation because it conveys no information.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

To expand on this: It's common practice in IT/dev/devops to shorten things by first letter - number of letters in between - last letter

So you get things like i18n - internationalization, l10n - localization and k8s - kubernetes. Venture capitalists Andreessen and Horowitz also seem to think they're important enough that people should call them a16z. Which apparently some people do.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I think the best one is a11y (accessibility) because it looks like ally so it's easier to remember

[–] Alxe@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Adding some context: it's because there are 18 abbreviated letters, hence i18n.