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All in all, the / is just one style of abbreviation used in English. It's not only used for "with", but also a few other words (w/o = without, N/A = not applicable).
In German we abbreviate using a dot (e.g. "m." = "mit" = "with). That's not more or less intuitive, it's just what you are used to.
What's kinda special with English is that there are multiple abbreviation styles. Off the top of my head I can think of six styles:
I'm used to Dr., Mr., Mrs. all needing the dot.
I'd also add the medical ones which all use x, and most use the first letter of the word, but not all, so it's kinda point 3, kinda not:
Both are possible: Dr and Dr.
Never heard of the x version. Very interresting.
Might be. I'm neither Brit nor American, so I learned both.
I work in radio electronics and RX is receive. TX is transmit.
In programmer lingo we'll sometimes shorten words with the number of letters in between:
i18n (internationalization) and L10n (localization). I just learned of g11n (globalization), too.
Wait until you learn about k8s
No thanks!
This one is terrible IMO. A11y is ironically very inaccessible unless you’re aware of this unintuitive system.
Now that I know it though, it's a good way to distinguish between similar common abbreviations. For instance I know you don't mean "Actually" even though I'm not sure what you do mean by A11y.
Just start using it for everything and confuse everyone.. I mean E6E
Also k8s for Kubernetes.
Wait. That is why it's called i18n!? Never knew that.
True, forgot about that one. I really hat this style of abbreviation^^
F3d i0t f1r y1u.
Aaarg!!
You'll be a hero at work when your coworkers see how efficient your commit messages have become.
you h2e it?
d4s (dingus)
r13y (reproducibility)
Dr., Mrs., Ms. etc. are traditionally abbreviated with periods/dots but it does raise issues typing on one's phone because autocorrect thinks it's the end of a sentence, so sans dots is becoming more common. And there's other examples which have never had dots, like nvm and af
X is a little special, it stands for Cross and therefore also for Christ. When illiterate medieval people had to sign documents they were told to make the sign of the Cross, since they were usually swearing
Edit: anyone else always pronounce PED XING as pedexing instead of pedestrian crossing?
Using the period with titles is standard in the US and leaving out the period is standard in the UK.
Both Dr and Dr. are possible.
Yes, that's how I pronounce it.
When you type Dr., et al., you normally follow it with a proper noun. Why is the auto caps an issue?
Don’t forget re: which means regarding or in reference to, not reply.
... I think it's actually a Latin word, "re,", meaning, "the matter (subject)" not an abbreviation at all.
yeah this is a real pet peeve of mine.
In German many people, web mailers and also sometimes even email software use "AW:" (short for AntWort) instead of "Re:" and then some of them don't even recognize the existence of a previous "AW:" or "Re:" giving you such wondrous email subjects as: "AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: AW: Re: AW: Re: really important subject" 🤦
Oh, that totally works with a single language too: "Re: Re: Re:..." or "AW: AW: AW:..." seen both of that often enough.
yes indeed. i keep being confused how email can still suck so much sometimes when it had decades to mature.
Massive amounts of federation ;)
It's really hard to get thousands of software development companies, hundreds of thousands of hosters and billions of users to unitedly go for a new thing.
don't forget x in medical settings. eg, dx is diagnose, tx is treatment, etc
don't forget using contractions on single words, like cont'd, pop'n (sometimes written pop^n^)
I think it's usually the first letter(s) and the last letter(s). In older English handwritings I've come across M.ʳ etc. So I think that's were those came from.
In the Speedwriting shorthand system, developed in 1924 for use with typewriter, / Is used to denote omitted sylables, so 'with' becomes w/ and 'without' becomes w/o. Here is a pretty deep guide on the precepts of Speedwriting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Classic_Speedwriting/wiki/list108/
But shouldn't "w/o" then be written as "w/o/"?
And "N/A" omits more than one sylable in "applicable".
I guess it's a grown system.
Bonus points for one of your examples being e.g. which stands for exempli gratia, translating to "for example"
Except Dr., Mr., ie., etc. use a period.
Abbreviate using the first and then any choice of following letter that differentiates it from the other possibilities in a specific group: AL, AR, AK, AZ... MA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT.... WA, WI, WV, WY!
Well tbf those are post codes designed by the postal service to represent states. I wouldn't really count it as a naturally developed abbreviation like the ones above, it's no different from .fr, .es, .co.uk, etc.
The abbreviations for states used before the two-letter ones, however, are much weirder! E.g. Penna. for Pennsylvania