This weird abbreviation fetish was a big turnoff when I just got into programming (about 15 years ago when it was a lot more common). It’s just nonsensical and off putting.

You should try to change your perspective: Source code is its own language, and much like with natural languages, to get good at programming you should learn the language of the source code and not try to dumb-down by constantly trying to translate back to English.

It can be a time saver and helpful when you’re writing it. But hurts even yourself a year or two later. Others with no previous code base experience have it 10x worse.