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 !

😂😂😂 Don’t mix those up! Or maybe that’s the problem 🤣

Gravy so devine! 😂 I like it!

I've been here years and still get confused with some of them.

You’re quite right.

I love it. I always get excited when I see a new one that I haven't come across. It's like a puzzle trying to decipher what it might mean and I find it hilarious everytime I realise I have misunderstood a particular abbreviation and got the entire post wrong. :-)

I think I read the thread you talking about, and from the context worked out that AS was apparently Adult Son, but I had never seen that one before. I am already familiar with terms like DP, DS, SIL etc, of course, as they are used so much on Mumsnet.

But sometimes on a thread people seems to be making these initialisations up, and if it's a subject I don't know about, for example something medical, then often I have no idea what they're talking about! Why do people want to limit the number of posters who can understand their thread? I swear it's like a secret code.

What people could do is the first time something is mentioned write the full words out and put the acronym /initialisation in brackets. Then when you mention it again you can just use the short version. Then people might have a bloody clue what you're on about.

'My sister-in-law (SIL) is having a hard time recently. Last week SIL told me that...'

Well everyone knows SIL, but just as an example.

I grumbled about this a while back and was basically told I was thick.

Adult son?

You are not being unreasonable opening poster.

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Haha YANBU (you are not being unreasonable)
They confuse me too and I always end up googling them half the time 😄 But having said that they don't spoil my enjoyment of Mumsnet by any means, they just mean I have to spend l time working out what people are on about.
I do secretly laugh at the idea anyone on here is going about daily life calling every relative darling this that or the other.
I much prefer it as dickhead like you've suggested! 😂

There’s a case in point - I always thought it was Original Poster!

Ohh I've always thought it's "original poster" but maybe that's changed in my 12 years of being on mum forums 😄

What I find annoying is other threads where an acronym is put in and I have no idea what it is. I then have to google it and it turns out it's the initials of a boy band or another forum or something. Can't think of an example atm but it happens a lot.

A customized glossary would be exceptionally useful, and shouldn't be difficult to implement. Add a button to the bottom of each post to generate a pop-up list of all recognized abbreviations, acronyms, initialisations and initialisms used within that post together with their meanings - with multiple possible interpretations listed where necessary. Even better, add a button to rewrite the post in plain English by feeding it through ChatGPT - which in many instances could also offer a response to the original/opening post.

Sometimes I feel that it goes too far when people put DD for for the dog and DC for their cat

It's just the internet, I'd seen the same terms used on several other forums before I found MN. MN even has a handy list, linked above.

That was a typo, was meant to be DS. Took me ages to figure out.

DS can also be sister - very confusing

No I think it's because the D and the A are next to each other on the keyboard, later she used DS

I don't mind them but ddog and dcat bugs me - it's longer to type and entirely pointless. You don't need to inform people that your pets are dear to you. It's a given. Dh dd etc only came about as quicker to type.

I thought it was adopted son but adult son makes sense as well

When I first discovered mumsnet I was so shocked that everyone on here had called their daughters DD like Deedee Pickles in the rugrats.
I thought I was the new Daisy.

I find it all rather cheesy and annoying.
I also get annoyed by people referring to the children by what year group they are in at school. Why do people type "my Year 3 son" rather than "my 7 year old son" ?
All very daft.

Yes! No one actually says dear or darling husband/wife or daughter/son. It's so annoyingly twee.

I presumed adopted son?

I think it’s intentionally ironic rather than twee. Intentionally twee belongs on Nethuns.