To think mumsnet abbreviations...

[Nearlythere1]

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.

I stand corrected!

And I realised my example is an adjective, so I’m the fool😳

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Do join me in 'a cringe' Jassy

It also makes me cringe when people text me and refer to their child as their initial, B did this and H did that. It's really not hard to write their name. Hate all the abbreviations and the whole D thing.... 🤮

Is it not ironic that you have posted this on
AIBU..

If it's that annoying then 👋🏻

And I am constantly having to look up what they mean, thank goodness for google 😂 I am not slating acronyms in general, lol being a favourite but I'm not sure for the need to be used so much on here especially not for son, husband etc..

Having said that, I still like Mumsnet, people are allowed an opinion and are allowed to point out negatives but still like something? I am not going to stop being friends with the people who refer to their children as their initials 😂

I love some 'D' - AIBU?

YABU, it’s not compulsory, if you don’t like it, flouncers corner is that way ————————>

You sound like someone who hates women and has nothing better to do with their Sunday afternoon

I almost missed someone earlier when they used DSS, to me, that department of social security, or the new DWP, department of works n pensions.

Mind, omg was used in a war correspondence, with an admiral sending a telegram to Churchill using omg, then stating, ... By which I mean oh my god.

Abbreviations will always be used, we can't escape that. So even make sense, but some are confusing. As mentioned by one poster, context helps a lot. The same with new words (a different thread).

I left school in 1985 with not a single qualification... No I didn't fail, I just left school and started training as a chef instead (a very long story).

I like to take Frank Skinner's approach to the English language... Moving on and developing.

In Shakespeare's day, he spoke a strange language, but not to us today, but to his peers. He added over 2k new words in common usage today, but THEN, they were new weird words!

English in of itself, is a very bastard language. There is no original language like it, as we use n borrow words from so many other languages.

Now that we live on our lovely tablets n smartphones, we use a very abbreviated speech. Part of that is due to screen size, and speed.

I think while abbreviations can be confusing, with regular use, you'll soon learn them. If not sure, just ask the op (original poster) or any poster.

My personal style or writing is 80% long hand, and 20% abbreviations/shortened words (not officially an abbreviation). I mean just typing 2, instead of two, might be considered lazy to some, as not "proper use of the English language", yet we all do it all the time.

Cringe can perfectly correctly be used as a noun ...the act of cringing is a cringe.

What is irritating and all over this site is cringe being used as an adjective eg “It’s so cringe” ughhh!

I’m with you OP - I recently read a particularly confusing thread where a poster areferenced both their daughter and dog as DD.....

Dog should've been Ddog 🐶.

I still have worked out the HTH one 🤔

Hope That Helps.

Or Hope This Helps.

I find them helpful in that it’s additional information about the person using them- those who use the ‘d’ acronyms are clearly a bit unimaginative, a bit tedious, a bit thick. In a forum where we don’t have tone of voice and facial expressions, these details are useful.

@Sjofn- yup, thanks. That does indeed help. Thank you. That one bugged the crap out of me- along with FWR for a long time!

Snuffalo
They are abbreviations not acronyms

I agree OP. I never use the 'D' prefix as it makes me feel like a twat.

*Macblank

Mind, omg was used in a war correspondence, with an admiral sending a telegram to Churchill using omg, then stating, ... By which I mean oh my god.*

I love this fact!

YABU OP.

Looking them up to see which one to use? Bit odd. And to describe it as 'sickening' is a proper overeaction. Calm down.

Mumsnet has some unique ones though... I still don't know what CF means. Cheeky F*er? Cluster Feeding? Cluster F*er?

I think it means Cheeky F*we but I first read it I thought it was C**t face (actually prefer it )

The abbreviations are not hard to work out I got what LTB meant after seeing it a couple times.

Always get confused though and read DF as friend not father for done reason.

The whole content of your post is useful in that respect Snuffalo.