Mumsnet Talk

1. Why would you use so many acronyms? Is it really so much more time consuming to write "my son" than "DS"? Just type what you mean people, it's only a few more characters.
2. What is the strikethrough all about?? Every other message seems to include a sentence or two that the poster has inexplicably chosen to apply strikethrough to. Can anyone explain why? Do people really find it witty?

1. It's pretty standard internet lingo
2. Yup and stop picking fights, it's not nice

okay

first of all the acronyms are not MN-only, heaps were in use way before MN came into being, they have been adopted across the net; most folk use them easily, some users prefer to type my son, my daughter etc. Shrug.

the strikethrough can be deployed to hilarious ends not always successfully unfort

HTH

Right! I'm fed up now of seeing that around

How do you make the bears appear?!

I have been he coming up to a year and I am yet to learn

DILLIGAF.

clicky me for a more cogent explanation pliz

secret code SP nods sagely

goes to check on DS

Brackets and bear

[ bear ] without the spaces makes

knock yourself out

Shit, will I be excommunicated

Also, please don't start goady threads when I'm about to go to bed.

FOIYDLI

Just sayin'

You do the brackets like you do with any other emoticons, with bear in.

Op the strikethrough came about as a result of a thread where people were chatting to tech, he made a smartasrsed comment with a strikethrough, and then unleashed hell as 396 mners then begged him to allow any poster to do the same. Anyway, other people find it funny, not all. Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Peace and love.

This has been done a lot.

1. Ds etc is not just a MN thing, used all over the internet. But lots of people on here are typing while breastfeeding or under a sleeping baby so every keystroke matters, sometimes. I think the 'darling' bit is also slightly ironic as its a place to be honest about how you might not be loving your child / mother right now. Some posters refuse to conform and use 'miniPicnic' or some such derivative of their name, which I find more confusing.

You can't really just order people to do what you want you know. Ds means my son. Do you type ok instead of okay or etc instead on et cetera?

2. Strikethrough is like an aside, something you don't say out loud but might secretly be wanting to say. Some people can't really work out how to use it correctly. Some people hate it and don't find it witty.

HTH

<snurk> at the sheer chutzpah of telling thousands of people that they are doing it wrong.

[bear in]

SPsFanjo - you have been here longer than a year surely?



Acksherly, I now have deja vu that this was mentioned on another thread recently, no?

That's very zen of you GetOrf

You ok? ::head tilt::

checks getorf's temperature

Well, you learn something new every day or so they tell me.

ah CRAP

I always thought the D stood for Dastardly. Or Damned. Or Disorientated.

actually I didn't but wanted to be able to use the strikeout