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Is there a generally accepted “rule” for truncating loan words?

I've noticed that sometimes loan words (usually pairs) are truncated to just the first two morae from each word: Smash Brothers　➤　スマッシュブラザーズ　➤　スマブラ "Don't mind."　➤　ドンマイ I assume this is ...