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the point of articulation for the english letters L and R are very close to each other. try it – say a long L and then a long R and pay attention to where your tongue is for each. on a pocky-related note, this is why japanese-speakers have such trouble with those two letters – in japanese, there is one phoneme that falls somewhere between the two english-language sounds, and after about age 2, humans begin to lose the ability to distinguish between phonemes in languages other than our native ones.