a11y looking like ally makes it the only one I don't roll my eyes at... but that only seems clever/memorable because of all of the preceeding awful uses of that abbreviation form.
Haha yeah I saw this earlier and that's exactly how I read it, I had no idea what it meant and I didn't click. Only now that I'm bored I went back to it- I would never have guessed the actual meaning
The ironic thing about this language is that it is an attempt to be "inclusive" by introducing weird shibboleths that exclude most people.
I was once informed by someone at a big tech that the reason for these "x[n]y" codes is because these words can be hard to spell for non-native speakers of English. Also, they added "a11y" (accessibility) to the list.
I think the real explanation was that these were introduced because "internationalization" is a long word and file path names used to be limited in the 1980s.
a10g means "abbreviating" by the w1y.
I promise it will not burn up too many more calories of soylent to just type it out, nor will it take much longer.