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Original poster

To think mumsnet abbreviations...

284 replies

Nearlythere1 · 10/02/2019 00:56

Am i being unreasonable to think mumsnet abbreviations are utterly moronic at best, bordering on.. i don't even know at worst. Does it not take most posters more time to look up which idiotic abbreviation they need than it would to just write it? And the sheer saccharine "D" prefix. Come on. It's laughable, and sickening. It sounds like school children talking in code, but without half the moral and emotional discrimination. Everybody is a "dear" something no matter what.

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beluga425 · 10/02/2019 00:58

"D"OP,
Are you on glue?

Tavannach · 10/02/2019 00:58

Yeah, you are.

Insomnibrat · 10/02/2019 00:58

I agree OP, FWIW. HTH.

MolyHolyGuacamole · 10/02/2019 00:58

Agree with you fully! So many abbreviations are ridiculous, had to look up loads to understand what I was reading. And 'dear' makes me cringe.

jammf · 10/02/2019 00:59

ODFOD

fusioluxe · 10/02/2019 00:59

The D prefix was around long before Mumsnet, it’s just internet speak. So yes, you are being U!

Joey7t8 · 10/02/2019 01:02

You’re not being unreasonable at all. Why not just write husband, daughter, son etc. like in everyday life?

Original poster
Nearlythere1 · 10/02/2019 01:11

To the people that agreed with me, thank you! To the people who wrote back in abbreviations, you make my point, I do not understand you and if you want to communicate with me after I spoke to you in plain language, well then you could try moving your fingers to make a few more words too. Needless doublespeak. It's stupid. And to the poster who said the "d" thing was around before mumsnet... so? This isn't reddit is it? And to the others that agree with the saccharine "dear", it's pathetic isn't it? I too cringe.

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Waterbottle1999 · 10/02/2019 01:13

They really aren't that hard to understand. It's all about context

ICJump · 10/02/2019 01:14

It’s not mumsnet it the internet. DH has been in common chatroom use since at least 1996.

Bryjam · 10/02/2019 01:20

And to the poster who said the "d" thing was around before mumsnet... so?

Well you are slating Mumsnet abbreviations when they are not Mumsnet abbreviations but simply internet language, perhaps that's what the poster meant?

newroundhere · 10/02/2019 01:20

The abbreviations are part of the language of the Mumsnet community, and most people seem to be able to manage them. If you want to join in then the onus is on you to understand what they mean.

Do you expect people to speak English to you when you go abroad?

PS (apologies for the abbreviation) the posters who replied with abbreviations were trying (and succeeding Grin) to be funny

Original poster
Nearlythere1 · 10/02/2019 01:21

No, when there's talk of any sort of agency, for instance social services and their many departments, or any sort of relative, no matter how distant, it's abbreviated to the point of incomprehensibility. It's stupid and dare I say elitist in some way. And wherever the "DH" thing came from, I don't care. Get a grip. Simpering on about your "dear this" and 'dear that". As somebody said above, it's so cringe. You sound like a bunch of 50s housewives with Stockholm syndrome.

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Bryjam · 10/02/2019 01:23

You sound like a bunch of 50s housewives with Stockholm syndrome.

Marginally better thank sounding like a twat, don't you think?

fusioluxe · 10/02/2019 01:26

So you just came here to have a go at people?

Weird!

Original poster
Nearlythere1 · 10/02/2019 01:28

Bryjam no, I quite enjoy my life, even online might i add, being able to say..gasp.. husband... brother... in- law! Without prefixing it with "dear".

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Bryjam · 10/02/2019 01:30

That was a rhetorical question. Obviously.

SilverySurfer · 10/02/2019 01:31

Try hitting the X in the top right corner. No, it won't dispense with abbreviations but will mean we don't have to listen to the moaning.

HTH

HeartsTrumpDiamonds · 10/02/2019 01:32

To me “D” means Darling not Dear.

OP u ok hun ?

Original poster
Nearlythere1 · 10/02/2019 01:32

No fusioluxe, but I see you're all closing ranks, as indicated by your weird speech. You see above that other people agree with me. Other normal women and mothers who want to join in but have to keep switching tabs to look up the latest ridiculous abbreviation, when surely the point of this community is to talk and communicate, quickly and urgently sometimes. Why do we need initiated into a secret "mumsnet" speak to access that?

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Original poster
Nearlythere1 · 10/02/2019 01:40

And @heartstrumpsdiamonds I think you're a particularly awful example of what I'm speaking about.

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HarryTheSteppenwolf · 10/02/2019 01:46

@Nearlythere1 - Agree 100%. They're irritating in any use, but particularly when they make you struggle to know whether someone is referring to a girlfriend or grandfather, "dear" friend or father, niece or nephew, "darling" mother or Daily Mail, etc.

ICJump · 10/02/2019 01:53

But it’s not mumsnet it’s the internet!
Even TSSDNCOP is from the west wing.

halfwitpicker · 10/02/2019 01:57

I don't think it's secret though, is it? It's what t'internet uses, no?

HarryTheSteppenwolf · 10/02/2019 01:58

Even TSSDNCOP is from the west wing.

And ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ is from Sesame Street. What's your point?