To want to refer to my husband as husband and my children as children?

[shesgrownhorns]

Bloody Mumsnet dd, dc, dm, dh, dp, exh, blah blah blah.

Why do we do it?

DDog always makes me laugh. It's not an abbreviation.... It's more letters!! It takes longer to type. It's like being called Fred and your nickname being Frederick Hans McTwattery 3rd.

Sorry - realised it would make sense to google it - so answered the question for anyone interested!

@shesgrownhorns
I'll feel all left out if i don't.

Don't feel left out, I'm very mood dependent if abbreviate or write the whole word, I think a few posters do.

Just don't refer to DH as hubby. Very unmumsnetty.

@shesgrownhorns

Sorry - realised it would make sense to google it - so answered the question for anyone interested!

Oh OK, cool.

This is embarrassing, but when I first joined I kept thinking that I can't believe how many people are called TIA, everyone kept signing off as TIA.
Literally took forever to realise 😭🤣

Just do it how you like it then. It’s one thing there are no actual rules about, just conventions.

I’m resisting, sometimes I type them in but have to go back and type the proper words as it niggles me. Anyway I can’t bear the D bit!
DF does my head in, is it father, friend, or fiancé/fiancée. I admit I give up reading some posts because I don’t know who the heck they’re talking about!

Languages bind communities.

MN jargon is important for that reason

I dont mind that. What I do think is stupid is when people have multiple characters who could be the same initials like DP could be dear partner or dear parents. DS is sometimes dear sister but usually dear son etc. Confusing

Also people who write Ddog.... that's not even shorter?!!

I don't know what to do

Be a rebel OP! Rise up against the tyranny of the abbreviation! Call them what you damn well please!

I actually think in MN abbreviations now, and have to remind myself not to use them when I’m having a conversation IRL.

I also think in abbreviations sometimes. Am happy that I use a different language in my daily life otherwise I would say them.

DS is son. DSis is sister.

DP is partner, DParents is out in full (as jargon, not abbreviation!)

The only confusing one is GPs, which might be GPS, but is probably grandparents, or maybe family doctor of sometimes guinea pigs. Mercifully they are different enough to be clear from context

Am laughing at soon to be ex husband - I thought it was ‘stupid bastard ex husband’ which I like better but isn’t even the acronym now I check!

I actually think in MN abbreviations now, and have to remind myself not to use them when I’m having a conversation IRL

Glad it's not just me

*Merename

Am laughing at soon to be ex husband - I thought it was ‘stupid bastard ex husband’ which I like better but isn’t even the acronym now I check!*

I still read it as son of a bitch ex husband 😂

I like DDog but not any of the others.

Especially confusing are the ones where a poster will say DS12 instead of DS,12 so you think they have a lot of children or sisters or something else beginning with S and a lot of the time they aren't that Dear anyway but a pain in the bum.

I always picture posters who write DH, D SFD W-hatever- as one of the "huns". I can't take them seriously.

It's funny how irate posters get on threads with completely confusing OP using abbreviations and replies vary according to what people thought the OP might have meant by DFiance or DFather.

If the "you are ok hun, DS DF DH lovers" are happy with them, leave them be. It makes them feel like they "belong" to a special circle

My absolute favourite is DILLIGAF.

Always think it sounds like some kind of flower.

ddog drives me round the bend. Why would anyone type that? And dcat. FFS.

Why don't we just have H, W, P, D, S, M, F and XH/XW?

I don’t do it myself, I prefer to type out partner or children etc. I don’t mind others doing it though, I know what it means so it’s okay. I also type out “in my opinion. To be honest.” Etc.

It does get a bit confusing when people tell a complicated story regarding their entire family, with DH, DS1, DS2, DD, DM, DF, DSIL, FIL and MIL etc until you feel you've swallowed a bowl of alphabet soup.

I use OH for my fiancé. I think I type out daughter/daughters most of the time but I can’t be sure now. I use MIL/DIL/FIL etc because they are much shorter - I’m lazy. I also have never said ‘hun’ in my life.

Do what you want.
It makes me SMH when people refer to an.abusive or cheating man.ad Dear/Darling H... he's far from it.

I don't use those abbreviations when I post. By the time I've paused to think what to use I've typed the whole word.