Comment by manmal
2 days ago
Totally tangential, but since I just recently found this out: character-number-character, like [k8s, a16z, a11y] means that 8/16/11 characters in the middle are replaced by their count. I was wondering why kubernetes would be such a long word, when you wrote k18s. Maybe it was just a typo on your end, and this system is totally obvious.
These are called numerical contractions [0] and are fairly well-known, in particular i18n and a11y.
Another one that used to be well-known is s9y for Serendipity [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym#Numerical_contractio...
[1] https://s9y.org/
I brought it up because GP had k18s.
It's kubernetes, and either a typo or a muscle memory confusion with i18n (internationalization).
I think kubernets is only the sound