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??

Post whizz I didn't find it amusing weird everyone has a different sence of humour weird that isn't it!

As a 26 year old I can assure you that ‘lol’ is very much still widely used among my generation and younger :)

A cross post is when someone unintentionally posts something that has just been posted by someone else.

Stbxh doesn't mean stupid bastard ex husband?

That took me months to come up with What does it mean?!

STBX = soon to be ex

The MN acronyms are an important part of the site as idiolect is important. A shared slang binds communities.

If you really cannot get on with it, MN is perhaps not the site for you - there are plenty of others which have different norms.

emmyrose DS would almost invariably be son, DSis for sister.

DF would be DFriend unless obviously not - DP would cover a finances, and father would be DDad.

People fall into the clearer/MN standard uses over time, I think.

Also the difference between DC1 (elder or eldest DC, could be any age) or DC (1) (DC who could be eldest, middle, youngest, umpteenth; but who is 1 year old)

And let’s not forget GF and CF.

DF is father, not friend.

DF can also be Dear/Darling Fiance

If such vast numbers of poster don't like them how come 99% of posts have them?

Is malcolm a bot?

He's been posting a lot of gf MRA apologist stuff on another thread I was on, all his posts were deleated by mnhq for "breaking talk guidelines".

Make of that what you will.

What does yy mean?

YY=yes, yes.

I don't even notice the acronyms any more.

reginephalange I heard that whoosh too 😂

Anyway, I'm with you on this one OP. I can't stand all of the acronyms used on here, I know they're nothing new or unique to this site as they were used on a predominantly American parenting forum I used nearly 20 years ago. The whole "Dear" thing seemed twee back then too.

I'm with you. I'd much rather write husband than DH

This comes up regularly. There are good reasons why it's DH and DS and so on. And it does give a shared sense of community and belonging. You don't read the d as darling or dear or whatever. DH = husband. Lots of communities and professions have acronyms. DH is often mumbling about TWOCs and similar. It helps with his professional identity.

Love that people misread Malcolm. You don't need to have the same sense of humour to understand when somebody's taking the mick.

STBXH does mean stupid bastarde ex to hundreds of posters. I can't read it any other way.

My mum thought LGBT was a racial term and LOL meant lots of love.

While I'm here can someone tell me why people reply to unreasonable people in AIBU with ?

Usually because the AIBU is so it doesn't deserve a comment.

Goes back to Gordon Brown not answering what his favourite biscuit was.

I iz just one of da kidz 2 Asthenia

Lol

Oh oh. Credibility just flew out the window.

ChinkChink Seeing as how you are so clued up on language, particularly slang it would seem, you might want to change your username....

Kickassname that's the sound of two glasses touching in a cheers 'chink-chink'.

Even Gru knows that

Hmmm, I thought the sound of two glasses touching is more of a 'clink-clink'.

I always read the D as Darling, so I guess I’m just a bit twee eh and I like it when someone’s been a twat so they get called the sarcastic ‘D’H 😂

The thing with MN is that you don’t actually have to use the acronyms, it’s still allowed if you write husband, son, daughter etc You don’t get a stern letter in the mail complaining that you’ve not used DH, DS, DD you know.

I don’t use DDog much though, I prefer to use the very twee ‘SootDog’!

With the family....!!!! Baaaaahahahaha

If I see 'DH' I just see 'husband'. I don't even think about the D bit, it doesn't register at all.
DS1 (18) is quicker to type than 'my eldest son who is 18'.