He won't understand typos or initialisms or acronyms

[WhatsInATypo]

SOMEWHAT LIGHTHEARTED.

DP is like that all the time and it drives me up the wall.

Example 1: I was about to get us a takeaway and sent the message 'do you want the set that comes witk fries?' and he sent back '?' followed by 'what's witk?'.

Example 2: We were talking about how people were all scrambling to get tickets for the Taylor Swift concert. Somewhere along the way I sent 'think TS tickets can only be bought if you've got some special code though' and got a 'TS?' in return.

Example 3: I told him I was going to the store to get a cake to celebrate something. Got there and texted 'Tiramisu or Black Forest' and he sent 'for the cake?'.

I get wanting 100% clarity but he's a smart man surely some common sense and inference will do sometimes? I DO NOT do vague references and expect him to read my mind btw. All my complaints are when the above 3 examples happen. AIBU?

Oh god I had a friend once who was like this except it was "Eh?" Only she didn't even wait until I'd finished my bloody sentence!

My Gawwwwwwwwwd. 😳😳😳😳 I am so glad I didn't read this yesterday as my child had an operation today. Bloody hell

God this was my ex. Wasn’t just typos, if i mispronounced words (I’m bilingual and didn’t always speak English growing up) the scoffing and fake laughter make me despise him at times. ‘Huh, what does that word mean exactly? Harhar oh goodness me slight shake of the head no I think you mean, haha, you mean this don’t you? What does X word even mean, harhar’. Just the smugness of it all 😡. But ever call him up on anything and I’d get told to F off and foot stomping (literally, like a toddler).

@MasterBeth
No dear, it was a typo. And I corrected it for those who would endlessly jump on the bandwagon with idiotic questions that have already been answered if they cared to RTFT.

p.s. this is how you spell believe...

HTH

Nice to see your husband has been posting on the thread.

He thinks he's superior intellectually & clever , pulling you up on what he perceives as inferior shortening of words. Personally, I'd deliberately misunderstand and start asking every day in worried tones if comprehension skills have always been an issue for him: and how you can help him address it.

Maddening, isn’t it?

Anyone who doesn’t know what “witk” meant in the context of that text is either a bit thick or wants to be a prick.

😂

You're the one being arsey about your own typo...

Absolutely bloody infuriating, isn't it.

Your DH sounds incredibly thick. Bet he can understand emails from his boss when they aren’t perfect or typos.

Didn’t know I was dating a Mumsnetter but you learn something new everyday. 😂

My DH does this but in real life. We’ll be talking about a new restaurant that opened up near us while we’re out for a walk, stroll past it and I’ll say “Oh there’s that restaurant”. To be met with “What restaurant?” Erm the new one around the corner that we were talking about 5 minutes ago?

See also: stupid questions. Me: “What do you want for dinner” Him: “Why?” Err because we usually eat before we go to bed? Because I can’t read your mind? Because we have this conversation every night?

I know he’s not actually thick, I just think he’s really, really lazy about thinking for himself and maybe scared of making a bad assumption about what I mean. I call it “outsourcing his thinking”.

Yes, my DH can’t follow film plots either!! “Who is that? Where are they going? Why is he carrying that?” All within the first five minutes of a film. I don’t know, but I expect if we wait all will become clear!

Oh! You're not married to him yet. A good sign to RUN!!!! :)

I haven’t a clue what witk means????
stop being lazy and just use proper English

Do you genuinely think that OP thought she would be cool, trendy and edgy by randomly deliberately changing the 'h' in 'with' to a 'k'? Wow!