I've finally cracked! (IFC)

[HaveIGotAClue]

I can't take it anymore. No more!

I feel like a code decipher in the second world war!

The EIU, MCB, RU, LA, FU, BASC, CW, GB...............

FFs - communication is about communicating! If you communicate in code and no-one has a clue what your 'code' means, you're not communicating!!!!!

Will you STOP THE FUCK (STF) with abbreviations or WETFTAC!

If I say, I TUAS, it is meaningless!

If you're going to use letters to denote sentences, please, explain the FBT in brackets at first use!!!

CIA - well known.
FBI - well known
DH - Darling/dear husband
DF - Dear fiance/Dear father

Seriously, it is putting me off this website. It is the only website where it is deemed acceptable to just say letters 'iitowwiidatjal'.

TYIAFYC

Have you found the acronyms link at the top of the page ^^?

NP OP

yygocih.

I'm not talking about well known and used acronyms. I'm talking about

EIA/LRC/FTB/NCB/SWOTR/PAS

No way of having a clue what is being talked about!

wanna figure out what yygocih means?

In MY day, if you were going to use an acronym, you first spelled out the full meaning, with the acronym in brackets. After the first spelling-out, you then used the acronym.

On here, there is no meaning, just random letters, which do not count as acronyms, since they have not been explained prior to their use!

I haven't noticed too many random ones on here, except LTB which is clear. Using DS for sister or DF for, well, actually I'm not sure whether father or fiancé is more rare - that's frustrating. The abbreviations aren't meant to make it impenetrable. Sometimes there's such a cast of DSILs and DSISes that it's hard to keep up. But mostly it's clear.

YABU.

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the acronyms list is not comprehensive :-(

YABU

Ask on the thread it comes up on.

Most of them I can understand, if one isn't obvious I ask.

Crankycunt - surely having to ask defies the purpose? You're not saving anybody any time? Just putting intelligible information out there and expecting people to respond?

ODFOD

It DOES save time if everyone consults the glossary once or twice;

www.mumsnet.com/info/acronyms

It's a kind of initiative test

It's very rare I see an acronym on here that I don't understand. I just ask if I don't get one of them.

There's too many now and they're too long

Also there's lots of usernames that would've been stamped all over years ago. Nobody blinks a eye now

I remember when it was all fields around here

many people don't even seem to know what an acronym is

dh, iyswim, ltb, cia and fbi are not acronyms

yabu and aibu might be depending on how you say it

nato and lol are acronyms

MN did not invent DH/DD etc, it's fairly standard Internet forum abbreviation, as are most of the other abbreviations used on here (like OP, IYSWIM, BTW).

Totally with you OP.