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0 pointsem3rgent0rdr1y ago0 comments

Abbreviations can only be useful when they're unambiguous within their context. Maybe “u’re” is unambiguous here, but “re” might have been a step too far to still know what word writer was abbreviating.

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JadeNB1y ago

Maybe “u’re” is unambiguous here, but “re” might have been a step too far to still know what word writer was abbreviating.

The question was about contracting “u’re” to “ur”, as is commonly done in text-ese, not to “re”.

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JadeNB1y ago

Maybe “u’re” is unambiguous here, but “re” might have been a step too far to still know what word writer was abbreviating.

The question was about contracting “u’re” to “ur”, as is commonly done in text-ese, not to “re”.

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