People who don't know Java abbreviate JavaScript as Java.
May 22, 20212 min read
The same goes for abbreviating Wikipedia as Wiki.
So, Mr. B, who abbreviated JavaScript as JS instead of Java, sometimes makes fun of Mr. A, but he too often does not know that JS is a well-known abbreviation of Japan General Housing Corporation, a company with over 1000 employees and a history of over 50 years, and if you search for “JS” on Yahoo! In many cases, they do not know that this is a hit.
If Mr. B, who made this point, insisted that the distinction can be made in context, he would be cut off by the response, “Then the usage of ‘controlling a video playing in a browser with Java’ is clearly a JavaScript thing in context, so you can abbreviate it as Java.
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You abbreviate git status as gs, because that’s ghostscript! I’ve seen this happen.
People with a larger vocabulary have a smaller area per one because the world is divided into more parts = less shaking.
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