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Re:I can't recommend Grafana anymore by tsimionescu on Saturday November 15, 2025 @01:33AM (#45935498)
This is all coming from stenography, it's a well established shorthand for long words: first letter, count of middle letters, last letter.
Re:I can't recommend Grafana anymore by fanf2 on Saturday November 15, 2025 @06:20AM (#45936676)
No, it cane from DEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym#Numerical_contractio...

It seems unlikely to me that stenography would use this style because they have better ways of abbreviating long agglutinative words.