@enf @glennf What do you think this “r.” is? (Also, note two quotation marks!)pic.twitter.com/rZVuAwFAJk
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The theory posits it was unshifted before, and someone just liked it aesthetically. (Same with the opening/closing quotation marks.) Then other people or market forces requested more punctuation, and those – and the tricolon – were first to go.
What was the aesthetics? To have a superscript r. for abbreviations like Mr.?
Usually because something was typed so often, it would reduce keystrokes and take up less space. I suppose if you typed Cr. and Dr. 1,000 times a day, halving the stroke would be useful?
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