No more 'lol' or 'xx'

[dinomonkey]

Actually I don't really care, but I keep noticing these awful few letters on the end of 'alot' of posts and it's annoying me.

Thanks for reading hun lol

lol is childish

Is it not all just a bit classist? Almost all the people I know who use hun etc are working class (although tbf lol is pretty ubiquitous). I do sometimes cringe inwardly at dodgy spelling or grammar, but surely it’s rude to take the pee out of someone for it?

Bloody hate 'lol' and even worse the creepy 'lolz' but find myself using 'lol' for ease.

I work in payroll, I have one member of staff (young but not a teenager) who finishes every sentence in a message it feels like with 'haha xoxo' I don't understand? Help me. It's payroll FFS.

Yawn

Christ just let people BE. Who cares? These stupid threads just clutter up the boards and the same tired 'jokes' are trotted out.

Yep. Yet another swipe at those newbies here from another site.

For some reason people think that being mean and taking the piss makes them more superior.

@Joerev
I'd bet good money that he did tell her. If it was me I would've been the same as her

I don't mind xx, so many people I know use it that I've kind of stopped seeing it tbh. However, "lol" really grinds my gears. No need. It means "laugh out loud" to me (although I know it also stands for "lots of love", but still, why would you put it on everything!!)

Is it not all just a bit classist? Almost all the people I know who use hun etc are working class (although tbf lol is pretty ubiquitous). I do sometimes cringe inwardly at dodgy spelling or grammar, but surely it’s rude to take the pee out of someone for it?

I think you're correct and it's coming across as unwelcoming and snobby.

Oh dear I think I may have ended up finishing a post on here today with lol. I must have forgotten where I was.

I use a lot of emojis on FB and text messages but have to put lol to my mum as her phone doesn’t have emojis so I get a message back asking what the 2 little box symbols mean

For me whilst the hunning is irritating, it is the influx of victim blaming and misogyny apologists that concern me most.

*Is it not all just a bit classist? Almost all the people I know who use hun etc are working class (although tbf lol is pretty ubiquitous). I do sometimes cringe inwardly at dodgy spelling or grammar, but surely it’s rude to take the pee out of someone for it?

I think you're correct and it's coming across as unwelcoming and snobby.*

Agree with all of the above. If people are as terribly clever as they think they are, they should be capable of communicating with people from different walks of life. Class, manners, whatever you call it does not involve belittling people who speak a bit differently to you.

We don't need xx, or lol, or ur, or u. And this is because we are grown ups who can hopefully construct sentences as such. This is not facebook or whatsapp. And yes, I do silently judge all those people who use such language.

I feel the same about the acronyms! Just type the full word. It's easier all round.... hun xoxo

I actually said lol once, I'll get my coat.....

Really !!! Surely on public forum it is encouraged for people with different views and language to engage.

If it really bothers people that much, don't use the forum. You can't dictate what others say and it's really not nice to tease people for their use of language, especially coming from a bunch of people who can't write wife, son or dog in full.

I love that people on here have this inflated view that they are of a higher class than other but yet behave like they wouldn't know class if it bit them on their behind.

They need to be told that MN is a local site, for local people, like us.
Preferably middle class, with none of these 'common' traits.

Snobbery rules

It's not snobbery, it just ill mannered and rude.

The xx after every post makes me absolutely twitch, especially when it follows a ‘I can’t believe how mean you all are to me’ post.

I did get very irritated with a poster a few weeks back whose every response ( on quite a serious topic) was scattered with "haha". She seemed to finish every sentence with it...I think it's the written form of tittering...I was imagining her as a Dolores Umbridge type.

I’ve got a really good friend, who isn’t working class at all (she’s a chartered accountant) who calls me hun all the time. Perhaps it’s more generational than class. But still don’t think it’s worth yet another thread about it.

Horrible thread.

Gotta make sure those that we think are beneath us know their place on here, eh?

I think some people 'forget' that this is a parenting website, not a literary salon or the pages of Private Eye. As my username indicates, I'm not unfamiliar with proper language. Oddly enough though, I can understand that not all posters are capable of or bothered about communicating in impeccable English, and seeing 'lol' does not give me a fit of the vapours. It's perfectly possible to read people's posts without dwelling too much on their grammar or their turn of phrase.

If people are as terribly clever as they think they are, they should be capable of communicating with people from different walks of life. Class, manners, whatever you call it does not involve belittling people who speak a bit differently to you.

This ^^ 100 times over.

Also, the same people will 'make allowances' for those who say they're dyslexic or that English is not their first language but refuse to make the same 'allowances' for those who for whatever reason, didn't receive a particularly great education.

Let people type how they want as long as people can understand what they're saying. If some people think that's 'dumbing down Mumsnet', then they can find somewhere else to post.