Ok. Internationalization is a drive to increase the usefulness of software in a global environment by providing messages in easily localizable formats.
It is a very noble initative, made quixotic by the lack of rhetorical study by the top gurus involved. If you think that shortening the word "Internationalization" to "I18n" (the first and last letters of the word held together by a tsmesis of the number of missing letters) is communicative, you have no idea what you are talking about. Get the fuck out of my industry.
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Posted by das at December 7, 2005 04:51 PM