to find the terms

[manicinsomniac]

DH, DD, DS, DP, DN etc etc more than slightly vomit making?

It's a trend I've never understood. If writing daughter, son, husband, partner ... is really so arduous then why didn't it develop int D, S, H, P ...
Why add the darling bit - yacky.

I guess I know I am being unreasonable. But it makes me a cringe a little inside every time I read it.

yabu if for nothing else its convenient, and i always thought it stood for dear

I agree but after wasting ten years on this site I am pretty used to it now .

Does anyone acually even notice what the d stands for? I know I don't. And really, MN is hardly tolerant of cringey phrases. 'Babydancing' strikes me as a particuarly vom inducing one favoured by other forums

I thought it stood for demented.

haha, if it was demented then my feelings would change!

I looked it up on the introductory information to this forum - it says dear/darling

I always think of it as 'darling', if I think of it at all.

It's so you can say things that are not necessarily flattering about your children, but without calling them all the names under the sun.

I don't think it's compulsory to use.

Perhaps you should try another forum? The terms are on every thread and you must be feeling very ill - not good.

Surely the D can stand for anything you want? Dear, darling, demented, daring, dreaded, disgusting, diva-ish, devilish, devious, delicious, deranged, demanding ...

I think it's easier to read and understand DP than D, and it's a shorthand that's in widespread forum use, not just on MN.

My little pet annoyance is people typing 'my DCs' because 'children' is already a plural.

YABU.I,and most people I suspect,don't even read it as 'darling' or 'dear'. I read it as the initials,or as husband,daughter,son etc.

I have not seen it elsewhere, and I don't particularly like it. You take the good with the bad though. It's a free forum.

Other forums have their own quirks too.

I din't like it at first either, but I've read it and used it so much that the Dear/Darling bit doesn't signify any longer.

Hmmm I always thought DH meant Dick Head

completely agree

I refuse to use the daft terms

I don't like it either - always seems a bit saccharine and twee. But at this stage I don't even think about it - it's just standard.

glad I'm not the only one!

And no, it doesn't bother me to the extent of not coming here, I was just intruiged to see how widespread the love for the acronyms were!

Damn?

Doesn't the s in DCs help differentiate between child and children?

Ok, while we're on the subject, what is an LO? (it's not in the acronym list) Am constantly baffled...

imnobody

I don't usually notice it.

Little One

LO is little one-I think :)

I hate it, it's my number one hatred!

I just don't see why people can't type out son, husband, etc. It takes less that one second.

Cloud Could it be little one?

Boak boak boak.