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
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