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So you can abv. it.
Abbreviation, in itself, is not an abbreviation, so obviously it is not going to be small, and concise, but more of a broad word. The long word "abbreviation" started from the short Latin word brevis, meaning short.
Like George Carlin's "Why is infinitesimal such a long word?", "Why is 'eternal' shorter than 'momentary'? ...and 'eon' shorter than 'nanosecond'?", "How is it possible to read the word 'invisible'?".
I know what you mean. Every time I finish spelling abbreviation I feel like I'm saying goodbye to an old friend. I've felt affection for shorter words, but it's the long ones that are so involving and require the kind of investment you could only make for an old friend. I can understand if you don't care much for abbreviation, as the word is long but sort of meaningless in a condensed sort of way, but surely there must some long word you like. How about constitutionalism? That's a long word that people can get behind. What about ethnocentrism? I don't really know what it means but it sounds cool and it's pretty damn long for a word. Just a thought.
Abbreviation is as long as it needs to be, so abbreviate it to abbr.
Short words don't tend to get abbreviated. I think I is somewhat fitting that the word for 'shortened' can be shortened, and still be understood.
Because you have to make up for the letters you abbreviate somehow!
The length of words in a natural language tends to be inversely proportional with how often they are used - frequent words are shorter, rare words longer.
This makes sense as people will find a shorter alternative for a long word if they have to use it often - like how "automobile" turned into "auto". I expect most people would rather have a 3-letter "the" and a 12-letter "abbreviation" than the other way around.
When people create words, they don't think about how the word physically represents or does not represent it's definition.
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