[inopinatus]

I naturally assumed, and by naturally I mean egrep '^a.{18}n$' /usr/share/dict/words, that a18n abbreviated anthropomorphization, and so in context that perhaps we'd be helping a recently translated program feel more settled in its new repository.

[FallenMax]

Not an English speaker but this is still awkward: I always think "i18n" expands to 18 characters until I see your comment and checked `"internationalization".length` in console to be 20

[1-more]

yeah 18 is replacing the middle 18 characters in the word, not including that i and n at the ends. I personally don't like it because it's just an English speaking programmer in-group shibboleth that has bled over to k8s for kubernetes and a16z for Andreessen-Horowitz