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??

I don't mind most abbreviations, but it's annoying when people use DS to mean sister and DF to mean friend.

They can mean son and father/fiancé too so you have to look at the context of the post, which sometimes takes a while to get.

Sister, friend, dad, fiancé would be sooo much easier to read.

'GP' sometimes takes a read or two. Grandparent/doctor/small furry animal?

I think adding ‘D’ to everything is very twee and a bit embarrassing.

Asthenia

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”

Exactly. The dreadful D thing makes no sense at all.

elQuintoConyo

Agree! I love reading proper words.

Never understood what BOAK means

It means vomit.

Boak isn't an initialism though. It's a proper word - variant spelling of 'boke', to vomit.

Which is Scottish, I lived in Glasgow for 12 years, joined MN in 2014 and absolutely love that people use "boak". It doesn't look right spelt "boke".

I like the ability to shorten commonly used words / phrases.
Indeed, it annoys me now when I'm writing up reports at work that I have to type out the whole work for 'children', when 'dc' would be sooo much quicker

back for good

When I first joined, I thought the name 'Tia' was very popular - until the penny dropped!

dilligaf?

ChinkChink

Indeed, but (in my defence), I feel that adds intonation

if you don't like it post somewhere else that does not use acronyms. yanbu to not like them, but complaining when they are well established part of the forum...

there are many of the hate swearing hate acronym type threads.

These are not acronyms.

floggingdeadhorseemoji

Ah chinkchink

Was just going to say the same thing. It’s one of my pet peeves

My other peeve on here is hard to follow stepparenting threads about bedroom arrangements with dsd13 dd12 dss11 ds10 etc

Far too confusing

That all makes complete sense to me.

Agree BlackEyedSusan - I think it takes a particular kind of self-centred arrogance to come into a large and well-established group and tell them they're doing it wrong.

We're just fine.

Not everyone fits in to every group (either on the Internet or in RL), and it's up to the individual to find one they like. Not expect the groups to change to suit them.

Very often people new to the site complain about the acronyms and the 'D' stuff, then promptly suggest a 'like' button too.

Trying to make MN like all other sites, when the fact that it isn't makes it more appealing.

YABU

YOLO

I just use OP and MN I think. I don't mind lol.

TAAT

eh?

I don’t particularly like them, so I don’t really use them. You might be happier if you do the same, OP.