False economy. The trade-off between "saving some syllables" and the concomitant problems it causes is not worth it.
To this day I don't know what Eli8 means, and I'm not going to even bother to look it up. It's not communication.
To this day I don't know what Eli8 means, and I'm not going to even bother to look it up. It's not communication.
I think where we differ is that I see such abbreviations as no worse than any other - TLAs (three letter acronyms) can also be as impenetrable.
My first guess would have been a username for somebody named Elliot. Given that it occurred in this thread, probably not a correct guess.