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It will never cease to be funny how inaccessible "a11y" is if you don't already know what it means. Mike Judge couldn't even make this stuff up.
by griftrejection 2y ago
It will never cease to be funny how inaccessible "a11y" is if you don't already know what it means. Mike Judge couldn't even make this stuff up.
- card_zero 2y agoProbably anorthography: a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion.
- hollerith 2y agoIf you don't already know, you use a search engine to find out. (Lack of an obvious pronunciation is a good objection, tho.)
- cowsandmilk 2y agoThat doesn’t change the fact that it is inaccessible for no gain.
- NeoTar 2y agoIt’s shorter to say (4 vs 6 syllables), and to write - how is that ‘no gain’?
- MrVandemar 2y agoFalse economy. The trade-off between "saving some syllables" and the concomitant problems it causes is not worth it. To this day I don't know what Eli8 means, and I'm not going to even bother to look it up. It's not communication.
- MereInterest 2y ago> To this day I don't know what Eli8 means, and I'm not going to even bother to look it up. It's not communication. My first guess would have been a username for somebody named Elliot. Given that it occurred in this thread, probably not a correct guess.
- NeoTar 2y agoCommunication requires thought and input from both sides - if I use a numeric abbreviation with someone who is unfamiliar with it, I am communicating badly. I think where we differ is that I see such abbreviations as no worse than any other - TLAs (three letter acronyms) can also be as impenetrable.
- nemetroid 2y agoI always thought you'd still pronounce it as the original word. How do you pronounce it? Aeleveny?
- NeoTar 2y agoYep - pretty-much, aye-el-ev-en-why although I may have miscounted the syllables in eleven in my parent post. It's most pronounced in aye-ate-een-en, internationalization is a word I find myself stumbling when saying in full.
- carlob 2y ago>(Lack of an obvious pronunciation is a good objection, tho.) ally?
- cmcaleer 2y agoOr the writer could keep their writing more accessible by using the word accessibility, understood by hundreds of millions of people, instead of some meme term understood by maybe thousands.