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?

Hes an idiot.

If the whole message, and messages before that, was talking about Taylor Swift...you wouldn't get it??

Sometimes I wonder if DP is actually a Mumsnetter. The pedantry and manufactured cluelessness all feels incredibly familiar!

This describes my dad 😂
Another annoying example is where I will say
"I spoke to Barbara today and she said her and Noah were going to pop over next week"
him: "Barbara? Barbara who?"
Me: Literally the only fucking Barbara we know, who we talk about all the time, who has a son called Noah.
him: "Oh THAT Barbara!"
(and no he isn't old and doesn't have any sort of memory loss!)

or even where we know two people with the same name but it is super clear from the context which one I mean.
"I spoke to Emma about the bridesmaid dresses today"
"Which Emma?"
"Hmm, could it be the Emma who is my MIL and who is a dressmaker who we have arranged to make our bridesmaid dresses, or could it be Emma the 4 year old friend of my DD, let me think..." 🙄

I get frustrated when a relative consistently spells my DC names wrong on a group chat. Their names would definitely come up on autocorrect (they are not unusual names/spellings) and DC are both in the group chat so could also type @ and the names would be listed.....same as replying to someone on here.
But they (relative) are dyslexic and potentially have ASD so I appreciate that makes it more difficult.

you're exhausting

Obviously a typo for 'with'

Its strange how some posters pretend not to understand. Why would you want everyone to know you're a bit slow on the uptake?

Oh god this sounds like my mum, it's like they know the answer, they just need to make a stupid comment about it.

Hers is with adoption. She is OBSESSED with making sure everyone knows that someone is adopted.

me: saw Brian and his daugther today.
mum: his adopted daughter?

me: that's Connor Cruise, he's Tom Cruise's son
mum: oh yes, his adopted son

why THE FUCK does it matter?

Oh my God, your first example is my husband to a tee. I can read though a typo. It’s not hard to know what someone means in context. Or even out of context.

People are busy when they text, they might have children’s jumping on them, they might be doing three things at once, they might have fat fingers or they might not give a shit if they’ve made a mistake. It’s a fucking text, not the magna carta.

I always get the “?” as well.

He’s either got really shit comprehension skills or he’s just being a knob. I haven’t got time for either. He can bloody work it out, he’s not 5.

It's just an extension of the itty bitty committee. A teeny tiny waist, a teeny tiny plate, topped off with a teeny tiny IQ.

IQ? What on earth do you mean?

It could just as well be iguanalike quality. How are we to know

Luv U 2

Yes, but 1) there is no suggestion at all that the OP's message is one of a string of messages or that she had already been talking about set menus.

2. I simply said that I have never heard of a series of menu items being referred to as "the set". My mind would no go there. This might make me ignorant or stupid or sheltered, but it doesn't make me deliberately obtuse.

I would hate this and I would ignore him or try to devise a horrible punishment every time he did it. E.g. not get him any fries, get a cake that he hates/ not get cake, not get him a TS ticket. Or text back FY or just LTB.

The "set" is irrelevant though because OP (original poster if we don't like acronyms)s DP (dearest partner) clearly did understand that part and only queried witk

Jeez, does anyone on this thread understand how a message board conversation works?

It ebbs and flows. It goes off on tangents. Different posters are responding at different times to different elements from different posts.

"The set" is not irrelevant to the part of the conversation that was discussing the use of the phrase "the set". Yes, the original poster's partner understood. Well done.

Christ there's some deliberately obtuse people on here!

@WhatsInATypo you've been incredibly patient in responding to the potentially goady posts that some have made. I wouldn't play their silly games any more though as they know what was meant and think they're being so, so funny in querying it.

as they know what was meant and they think they're being so, so funny in querying it

Edited for the hard of thinking. 🙄

Wow, so you're so keen to poke people you belive to be "goady" that you have to throw an insult in even when it's you who has made a mistake.

“Belive”?

Oh no! I made a typo! Everything I say is invalid!

Talk about goady...

That could be grandiose narcissism

That was CLEARLY a bloody typo! Do you really think witk was an acronym?! You're not being superior ffs stop pretending to not know precisely what is meant! I suppose you're perfect and have never accidentally typed a word incorrectly, no. Never.