Talk:r/

RFD discussion: June 2021–January 2022
"Indicating the following string of characters is a subreddit." So it's just part of a URL, and part of a URL on one specific site only. Equinox ◑ 18:43, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
 * With that definition of course. But maybe he thought it should be included because one uses it jokingly with non-existing subreddits, or outside of Reddit. Like it should be glossed something like “indicates that the following topic is a meme”. KnowYourMeme has a lot of entries with /r/ aught . If a sufficient number counts as language, should this tell us that “r/” too is something? Why a determiner though? Fay Freak (talk) 20:53, 13 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Well, if you can cite it outside of Reddit...! Equinox ◑ 21:34, 14 June 2021 (UTC)


 * You're also completely right that it's ridiculous this has been given the grammatical part of speech of "determiner"! That is very, very wrong. I missed it. Equinox ◑ 21:35, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Are there easy ways to search for things like this? It seems like every search engine ignores "/", so you'd be searching for... "R". There's definitely citations out there, they are just hard to find. Any tips? AntisocialRyan (talk) 18:50, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete memes and customs of Reddit that have not escaped or acquired secondary meaning. If r/ becomes general Internet shorthand like @ then it's as worthy as Translingual sense 4 of @ ("Prepended to the name of the user to whom a remark is addressed.").  It is customary to @ somebody on many platforms, some of which will have special handling for the character and others of which will leave it up to humans to parse.  Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:37, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

RFD-deleted. &mdash; Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 12:08, 29 January 2022 (UTC)