Fed up with cracking the Enigma code on threads

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Does anyone else get fed up with people writing posts with so many confusing abbreviations on here . I’m fed up with them . Can people not just write in English . Even common ones like dh ? Is that direct husband , dickhead husband , dead husband ?? Drives me nuts . Just put husband . There’s loads .
ds , dh, dm , nc , lc , and on and on and on . Even read one today that was gsd ? I thought I’d that a good short dance , or gravy so divine, no it’s what German Shepherd dog 😂😂
Just write English for Christ sake .
Ps I’ve put this on the AIBU page , know idea what it means !

Yes but other fora use their own jargon. Reddit has some equivalents - AITA is their AIBU, for example.

The motoring forum most definitely Pistolheads has its own jargon, just like MN. I don’t think they’d appreciate you calling them ‘mumsy’.

Sorry, Pistonheads! Pistolheads would be a very different crowd.

They aren't exclusively Mumsnet abbreviations.

But they aren't universally understood or used abbreviations either. That's the point.

But you'd be a bit of a dick if you used language that not everyone understands in front of people who you knew wouldn't understand it. That's what is exclusionary.

My God, just get over it. If MN upsets you this much maybe it's not for you.

Wow! People moan about everything!

STFU 😉😂

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They even supply a list so you can look them up! What is exclusionary about that?

Using language that is standard for the location (in this case MN...
sorry, Mumsnet) is not exclusionary.

There are plenty of Mumsnet users on this thread who don't feel it's standard, don't use it and do feel it's exclusionary.

It's truly not that hard to figure them all out.

How do people manage when driving in different countries?

Just adapt...

Is here a chance the meaning might become clear from context?

It's not that it's hard to figure it out...

It's just that every time I come across one of these abbreviations - especially a new one - I have to figure it out. If I read the word "husband" I just read it. If I read the initialism "DH", my brain takes a split second to remember that DSH means husband. It's just harder to read with no benefit.

Totally

They're NOT Mumsnet abbreviations. They predate Mumsnet considerably.

There comes a point, where information is freely available and other posters are happy to explain if asked (which I’ve seen countless times across many forums) people are excluding themselves.

I don’t feel compelled to change the way I communicate on here because someone else just doesn’t want to and has decided that’s exclusionary.

It’s like going to the USA and getting your knickers in a twist because they spell colour ‘color’ or an American over here saying they were excluded because people use the word fortnight.

Oh dont Americans say fortnight what do they say instead?

"two weeks" presumably.

The can feel all they like.

They're wrong

The information is easily found on MN as to what they mean and it's used on forums all over the place.

It’s a strange nugget of information to retain but there you go

This is like the incomers who move into the village and try and change everything

If the Mumsnet Ds are not for you then I'm sure there are other sites that might be more attractive to you

I would like to take a moment to applaud the carefully distinct use of 'initialism' and 'acronym' on this thread. Jolly well done everyone.

Ddog and ddad etc kill me, why would anyone use those? Dear Dog?! 😂😂

I always read DH as dick head, which they usually are.

Maybe some people's dogs are very dear to them.

Maybe 'Ddog' is ironic and said beast has spent the morning ripping couch cushions apart and pooping in a laundry basket..