To get fed up with all the acronyms

[MrsKTx]

...there's just so many and I don't see how it saves any time or really what the point is? It's so confusing lol!
Dsis for example - why not just write sister??

DD DH

I always thought it was "Darling" but you guys say "dear"???

The D could stand for Dickhead. DH Dickhead Husband. DS dickhead Son. DM Dickhead Mother.

Or Dreadful. Or Dangerous.

It took me about a month of MN* to work out the acronyms with the handy acronym page. And my intellectual capacity is a lot like Patrick Star.

• i'm sure you can get that one.

I read a post once where the writer clarified every single abbreviation. Made me wonder why they thought the abbreviation necessary.

"went to the park with DP (DearPartner), and DD (DearDaughter), and DD (DearDaughter)' said that DP (DearPartner)..."

It was a painful read.

I hate all the DH, DC etc. I've never understood it and it just sounds so babyish.

Try working in aerospace... mumsnet acronyms are piss easy

What does cross post mean?

Writing something and the posting it while someone else is posting so you don't see a reply or replies that have just been made.

(It's inevitable this will happen to this post...)

Malcom oh dear!!

So if lol means lots of love the OP says "it's so confusing lots of love" doesn't it? That doesn't really make sence does it. Although I kind of understand where you've got this from as it did used to be lots of love and until I went NC with D(ickhead)dad he used to sign off texts with it.

But WHere have you got WTF stands for with the family from? Even your example doesn't make much sence out with DD or DS WTF. Well your not with the family if your only with your one child. I can't think how many posts you've read that must have confused you have you not seen the multiple "wtf is this" threads how does that make sence in your mind "with family is this?" And a picture of a strange rash or whatever. What the fuck!

What are your definitions for OP or NC lol I've probably confused you

It didn't!

Ha! That one did!

What's FML?

Fuck my life

This thread was worth it for ‘stupid bastard ex husband’

Find it bizarre when someone is talking about how utterly terrible their family member is but still refers to them as “dear”. ‘DM killed my cat and DSis helped her”

I’m new to mumsnet and couldn’t agree more

Ddog" or "Dcat" are the worst. They're actually longer, it makes no sense.

Yes, and as a pp said, DNephew and DNiece.

I think some people think you have to preface every person with a D, like it's an MN rule.

I've also seen threads where a poster goes to great pains to 'comply' with MN acronym lingo only to make no sense at all. 'DF, DN, DA, DNDN' and so forth. Know one could figure out if the poster meant DF as in father or fiancé or DN as in niece or nephew, or what the fuck even DA meant and it was a revelation that DNDN meant neighbour.

It would have been easier all round to just use the bloody noun you mean.

Queenofthedrivensnow I'm agog that there were folk who didn't read it like that at first (not really obviously haha)

*no-one. I think typos can be even more infuriating

I've got to the point where my fiancé (i don't use DF for that because that's dear/darling father!) knows what OP, DD, DS et cetera are from my handing him the phone to show him some ludicrous AIBUs. But then he has just watched a PSG football game so maybe he's already au fait with acronyms as a whole

Posting "I just had a fight with my DF, what should I do now?" is meaningless without clarifying/specifying whether it's father, family, friend, fiance, fiancee. The advice will likely be different for each.

Ditto DS - sister or son?

@malcolmfucker I laughed at your post, even if it had caused an outbreak of literalism.

Thanks Eastmids

Psst....Onions.....go back and re-read Malcolm's post with your sense of humour switched on!

OP - yANBU

All the other posters not getting the humour / irony in malcom’s post - YADBU

No one with any credibility has written 'lol' since about 2004. It's for old people thinking they're down wiv ver kidz.

It does seem ironic that many threads regarding dear partners, husbands, sisters, whatever indicate that in fact the people concerned are far from 'dear'.

Oh - and these are not acronyms, they're initialisms. HTH.

This post courtesy of a curmudgeonly pedant.