Abbreviations are driving me mad!

[Fiofair]

AIBU to hate all the abbreviations on this site? (Fully appreciate I’ve just used one of them). Why can’t people just refer to their child, husband, son, daughter, etc? Why the D this and D that? Spend half the time trying to work out who they’re talking about. Is it just me ? ?

wondered how long it would take for me to get told off. Turns out not long at all.

"Told off" ?
Or posters replying to the question you asked ?

Pointing out that this is a boring old chestnut isn't telling you off, no one's going to pretend otherwise

It's far quicker to type DD than my daughter all the time. Yes, it's occasionally confusing (DP for partner or parent) but it is usually possible to work it out from the context.

Or the dreaded A, B, C, D/names of these people being Alice, Brian, Cathy & Donald with an explanation of who they are and a potted history 27 lines back 'and Alice said to Cathy that Donald's Brian said Cathy didn't tell Becca- oh, we need to add Becca, she's E in this and related to Alice through Michael - F....

Agree I hate it and it's just laziness.

Someone got in a bate when her abbreviation was misunderstood

She said a relative suffered from SM

Someone thought it was Sadomasochism- Turned out to be the relative chose when to speak or not.

It’s laziness surely not to write the entire words out.

Ddog is nuts- it’s adding a letter.

( I have a dog whom I love but I’d not refer to her as Ddog )

Far too many acronyms that make it tedious to follow.

Exactly

Other sites are available, don't like this one? Think this is the section you were looking for:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/flouncerscorner

How is it mumsnets fault that you cannot work it out?

Dfish 🐡🐠🐟😂

Ooh @Fiofair you have caused others ( probably the abbreviations brigade) to take umbrage already!
Consider yourself roundly told off.

It’s a public forum - of course people will be irritated by Dabbreviations.

We are not all toeing the Dparty Dline.

So you don't use
NHS
BBC
ITV
MOT
ECG / MRI / CAT Scans
MND / MS
FAQ
or any of the abbreviations that in in daily use by the rest of society ?

Don't use them then.

I must be in the minority because I like Ddog, Dcat and so on. They're part of the family, after all!