For wishing Mum's Net would decode the abbreviations?

[Mitmoo]

I wish Mum's net would give us a decoder for the abbreviations used on this site.

As a newbie I had to ask what DS, DH etc. met so I've got those now but there are loads I just can't work out so please Mum's net, can you let us know what the abbreviations that are commonly used mean?

Or could Mum's Net Posters use this thread to tell us which ones they know and what they stand for?

Cheers.

Shut It Old Bat?

I even read mil, fil exactly as that now, I think of my MIL as mil in my head, not Carole. One day it will slip out in conversation.

Surely a touch typist can use the shift key to get capitals rather than turning on and off capslock?

Sod It! Oh Bugger!

If you can't follow links - how on earth do you manage to cope with the rest of the internet?

Mum's net... curtains?

Mum's net.. tights?

Mum's net... for fishing?

You don't read it as 'dear' or 'darling', the addition of the 'd' is just to make it more user friendly. You respond to the double letters with more ease than you would a single.

And it's only strange at first. Like joining any community, it has its own vernacular. You get used to it. And it's polite to try. You'd make the effort in other circumstances ie a new job and so if you're joining an established group, you make the effort to understand the peculiarities of it.

And really, the shift key is your friend. Caps lock is for ranting only.

It's when someone leaves the 'D' off that you know trouble is brewing.

Nope, I still read it as "dear" or "darling" and I have been here a reasonable amount of time now (first as a lurker and then as a poster). Why not just use H, S, D, etc? The first D doesn't add anything. Other than nausea. Why would DSIL be any clearer than SIL?

It is my Mumsnet bugbear. I am not going to try to fit in with it because in my view it's stupid. I don't do things that are stupid just to fit in online or in real life. I'm an individual, not a sheep.

I just got to know what the acronyms meant using the search function and by using the initiative of having a good look around the Talk Guidelines.

Because that's what you do as a new kid, and all that.

It never would have occured to me to start a flouncing thread about it. Sorry.

Is DILLIGAF not on there? It should be.

I don't think there are any rules on here Mitmoo that say you have to use the acronyms. If you can't remember them or don't want to use them just type it out in full I'm pretty sure no one minds one way or the other.

Welcome to MN Mitmoo you utter mentalist.

karmabeliever Sat 16-Jul-11 13:22:30
Posted: "You'll get used to it Mitmoo and before you know it you will be referring to your children as DS1 or DD and calling your husband DH. You will also come to believe that your real name is Mitmoo and fail to answer when people call you by your 'proper' name!"

Just when the pedants were making me lose the will to live, you come along and make me laugh.

To reassure the pedants, I will write 100 times "Mumsnet" and self flagellate for eternity.

Pip rabbit I'm new on here but thanks for the patronising welcome.

I certainly don't want to be going to links every time I see an abbreviation.

I hope the DS's DH's and the AIBU's or whatevers and rest never ever moan about teens using text speak.

Show off you really do make this sound like some kind of very unfriendly clique kind of a board. I do hope all newbies aren't supposed to pass a test in acronyms before they start.

As for the caps locks I've been typing for so many years I never consciously think about it but I fear the point has been missed there.

Okay then.

The SIOB is a secret, no? I've seen it on Chaos' posts and a few threads wondering what it means. I don't think she's telling yet, I hoped she would just sneak it into the acronyms list

I wish I had that level of power SueP.

Nope, I'm just waiting for the right guess.

I think I've said before, it's not rude or funny, but I think it would be incredibly apt at times --as well as a massive anti-climax now.

You get used to it, don''t worry.

What is awful is that you will eventually have to stop yourself from using it in conversation. I referred to 'my DH' to a strange in a crowded train carriage and spent the rest of the journey cringing in fear that I'd outed myself as a MNer or that some nutter with a baby would claim me as one of her own.

Sorry if you thought the correction of Mum's Net was pedantry. But it is kind of important when it's the name of the site!

If you don't like the acronyms though, don't use them. It's not the law or anything. You're free to post in any way that you wish.

Is it really, because?

I can't see Justine et al getting pissed off at a few random capitals and an apostrophe and it's not as if we do''t know what she means.

For future reference though Mitmoo, the correct term is 'Nest of vipers'.

Btw, is there anotehr poster called Memoo or am I going nuts?

Well I think it's important. If you don't, fair enough. I wasn't actually thinking about Justine's sensibilities!

Fair enough.

I tend to go with 'can I understand what this poster meant' - but that is prob. because my typing is shite.

Because hello: I am glad the name of the site is important to you.

I opened introducing myself as I newbie, I'm sure I'd have worked it out but thanks for your invaluable help.

LRD hello LOL "Nest of Vipers" it is from now on in.

OOOOO get me LOL'ing. I'll be DSing next.