If you are a developer you probably came across terms like "a11y" or "i18n". If you are like me, it took you a while to decipher what these actually meant.
By the way, a11y = "accessibility" and i18n = "internationalization"
The logic is that you take a long word (like accessibility), take the first and last letter ("a" and "y"), then replace all the letters in the middle with how many letters were there (in this case 11)
I find it particularly ironic to see people use this with the word "accessibility", since it makes the word so much less accessible.
So I built this tool as a kind of joke. It allows you to translate any word or sentence using this logic, then translate it back.
The catch is that since there can be multiple words that get compressed into the same output, the resulting translation is nearly always wrong.
For example: "a4s" can be any of "abacus", "alerts", "allows", "always", and many, many more.
Have fun!