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>>590709 Oh, I actually meant to go further into this. It depends. Unique abbreviations are usually at the discretion of the creators or the common users, such as how everyone says "A-O-L" but people vary in whether they say "aim" or "A-I-M". /r/ used in this context has 3 flaws in this design, however. First is that this is not a traditional abbreviation used to shorten a long, multi-word phrase, it is an internet abbreviation used when one is too lazy to spell out a word, such as "ur" or "nvr" (in which you would say it like the word you're lazily avoiding spelling out, even though not all of them would be pronounced as such as is). Second is that "r" on its own is already multiple words when pronounced out loud, both the letter itself and the word "are", so saying "r" when saying "/r/" is horribly confusing. The final flaw is that, as previously mentioned, traditional abbreviations use multiple letters to shorten something longer. No traditional abbreviation is a single letter long for the second reason, thus showing that this is not intended to be treated as a traditional abbreviation.
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