to hate this "D"C, "D"H, "D"D business

[kitnkaboodle]

... and wonder if everyone else hates it too and is just to afraid to break the cycle! I'm a relative newcomer to posting on forums, and I'm sure there is some hilarious origin to the tradition. But:

• it now just looks and sounds twee
• it isn't humorous in any way
• you'd all save yourselves a keystroke if you just typed D, H, P, M, C, etc...?? Still perfectly understandable

There are some ambiguities I guess - S for son or sister? but that's still there whether or not you drop the D anyway ..

Go on .. I dare you ...

It could of course equally be triplets.

I hate hate hate the acronym LO. Not sure why it induces the internal rage, I think it's because it sounds like 'ello in my head and that confuses my small brain.

Ah bless. A Eurochick

I am also new. What does the D stand for? I guess is H for husband, S for son etc.
Weird in my opinion.

Just read a want. D is for Dear. Got it.

I think referring to others as dear this and dear that is faintly obsequious, I've never used it

See I have no idea what a baby dance is. I think that MN is welcoming to us newbies in lots of ways, but the coded references take a while to understand. I expect if I look hard enough I will find a list of acronyms? Don't dare google them, having innocently checked out what dragon butter was and now cannot cleanse my brain.

Thought D meant Darling anyway.....

I think the acronyms make for easier reading.

Like someone said, just saying H sounds like heroin.

if you don't like it, go elsewhere or don't use it. It's just it is easy to type and read and for me it is a bit funny as all too often DS is not at all D and DP is EXbastardP. I suggest if you are confused, read 'getting started'

Aha! As I read baby dance earlier in this thread I thought it was the same as doing a happy little dance! Think I've just twigged I'm wrong!

Could I also just check.. I see PFB a lot... is that precious f'in bitch or does it mean something else?

Perfect first born I think (could be precious notperfect).

It's truly awful.

And what is x-posted?

I hated it when I first joined the site and never used them. But now I do. It really is quicker and clearer, and it doesn't annoy me any more.

What does annoy me, though, is when people prefix actual words unnecessarily with 'D'. Eg DDog, DNiece etc. That's just forcing the issue.

And YY SO MUCH to this:

I do wish posters would put DP (partner) instead of DF to mean fiance though. I find choosing the term fiance over partner very twee tbh. And as an abbreviation it gets mixed up with father and friend easily, as has been mentioned.

It smacks to me of "Look everyone! My boyfriend's asked me to marry him. You just live with yours!"

Oh who cares.

Saying ah Blessing is much worse than DH, DSis, DSS etc

OP, just to give you fair warning, if you don't use all the DH, DP's etc everyone on MN stands round you in a virtual ring sneering, pointing and pretending they can't understand you. Then you get stoned to death.

btw, quoting A La Mumsnet is doing a copy and paste of a sentence or phrase then putting an asterisk at the start and end, to embolden it. We're in the cheap seats, only the hallowed staff get the quote boxes, and when you find one of those in your thread, its like being sent to the head teacher's office

It's awful. Truly awful. It's the worst thing about parenting forums.

I don't like them either, but don't get my tits in a tangle about it.

DTD throws me.

Wow to the charmers who suggested that if op didn't like it they should 'leave now'

Seriously?

It is pretty cringe, as if we all go round saying 'my dahhhhling husband' & 'my dear child' urgh.

I don't like it, I'm not going to leave mn, I understand it makes for universal understanding and use it just for that. I prob won't anymore, I'd rather use husband etc and still think I'll get on alright as I have everything else in common with fellow mumsnetters apart from a few acronyms.

Though hearing the ones who tell you

'it's not ok to like it and to get out of the club if that's the case'

makes me hope I successfully avoid these crazy individuals in my otherwise pleasant mn experience!

'Its not ok to NOT like it' I meant.

I thought it was a bit weird at first but it just seems to be the Mumsnet way of doing things. I've read some of the funniest and most thought provoking things on here so a bit of DD/DS etc. is worth putting up with for that.

Doesn't bother me, although I was recently considering reverting to "my son", after referring to him as "DS" in public

As far as abbreviations go, family ones are fine. It's the euphemisms for periods, fannies and sex (thankfully not on this forum, but a few others) that make me squeam a bit.

oh shit, so sorry didn't mean to do that - was idly testing to see if it works - leaves immediately!!

So, have gone to "getting started" and it doesn't say what a baby dance is.

pouts

Seriously, there is a difference between having some shortcuts everyone understands, and we can look up if we dont, and having a private language to keep the newbies out. I don't mind having to ask, but try to be patient with us when we do, if it honestly doesnt say what it means anywhere on the site.....