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?

Truly outstanding

I have ended relationships for stuff like this. I am so bad with autocorrect, I just can’t deal with someone who doesn’t at least try

Well, tbf, 'witk' without an explanation might have been a new takeaway addition. If I had spotted that typo after I sent it, I would immediately follow up with: *with. Do you not do that? It's really text etiquette.

The TS is irritating, but he might have forgotten the conversation. In your head you were carrying it on but he had moved in to something else so TS was not on his radar.

And Tiramisu is a slightly unusual cake flavour, so he could have thought you meant a choice of dessert - black forest gateau or a tiramisu.

If you otherwise like him, I would cut him some slack. If you don't care much for him, then yeah, easy to find this kind of thing irritating.

I feel all the people being really pedantic on this thread and confused about witk show that maybe op's husband is not so alone in his lack of understanding. I'm neurodivergent and have mh issues so I'm very aware of differences being due to a range of issue which people can't help. But if its not due to any 'cause' this would irritate me so much.

It might be all the pp's and op's husband who don't understand have various reasons they struggle with basic context clues and typos. But if not it honestly does feel like laziness and or just irritating pedantry.

In fairness, I knew what the witk meant, but was confused by the set. Our local chinese takeaways all have multiple set menus, so I presume it'd one of those, but GOK (god only knows) which.

My DH is exactly like this, OP. Pain in the arse, isn't it!

If he is, all the more reason to write Taylor Swift, hereinafter "TS".

A) I don't know what WITK might stand for. That's kind of the point. I know ITK means In The Know, so I'd probably start there. As modern phones come with messaging suggestions and auto-correct, you have to go out of your way to spell a simple word like with incorrectly, after all...

(I think if I saw your message, my mind would already be confused, trying to figure out what a "set" is in this context.)

B) Why create "a whole post"! Because they misread it, scanned it, skimmed it?

People's minds work in different ways. Your way is not necessarily the only way, or the best way.

Well in this case, it's the one that comes WITH fries 😆

@MasterBeth

You've sent someone out to buy a takeaway, at your usual place. You get a text about 'set'.

Wouldn't your FIRST thought be 'we often order 'set 1,set 23' etc. Maybe that's what this set is about.

Or would you think it's randomly about Wimbledon?

I agree that the DH sounds irritating, but I have to say Tiramisu isn’t a cake.

I have never referred to or heard a menu item referred to as a set before today.

When I see people referring to "Set Menu A" or "Set Menu B", I see the derivation, but it's not a phrasing I have ever come across.

My point is that THEY talk like that.

Well, yes, but that's at a tangent to my conversation with the original poster.

Tiramisu is a dessert but there are also tiramisu cakes.

Examples:
https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/tiramisu-cake.html
https://www.greatbritishfoodawards.com/recipes/tiramisu-cake
https://www.crumbsanddoilies.co.uk/products/tiramisu-cake

Your DH and some of the posters on this thread wouldn't dare try the Tesco recipe, OP - it says it's got a 'runchy amaretti biscuit coating' - that could be anything!

🤣🤣🤣

You can get tiramsu flavor cake. Obviously

NaT = neuro a-typical

OP hats off to you for bothering with the deliberately obtuse on your thread. I guess you have so much practice!

Oh, I see. Thank you 🙂

The poster who said passive aggressive twat was bang on. He's just being a dick. ALL of your examples are obvious and relate to their context. What a dull dull fucktard he is.

You are being deliberately obtuse, it's tiresome.

I have a close friend who knows I'm dyslexic but she still picks apart every typo. In fact she will often say to to me 'wait! Wait! What do you mean, go back and explain xyz' when no other friend has ever done this or struggle to read my texts. Everything needs spelling out in minute detail with a entire backstop, it's exhausting sometimes.

So if I said 'ds went on holiday with his gf' I'd get the 'wait, wait, go back, you never told me ds has a gf. That kind of thing. Then I forget what I was talking about. I need to call her at some point about my mums death but I need to make sure I get the time line exact or it will be picked apart. I do love her

Yep exactly. It's perfectly normal in a string of messages, which may have perviously discussed the set menu to shorten to set.