That Mumsnet should drop the D?

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Adding D to all family, friends and pets is ridiculous! To see adults referring to their "DH" who has subjected them to assault or abuse is particularly nauseating. And DDog! FFS! Is it not just time to drop the D?

It's ridiculous, not playing the D thing, just cringey.

Would it not be easier to just write the full word instead of abbreviations?? I mean it’s not like the old days with text messaging where you can only wrote a certain number of characters in one message. It’s unlimited pretty much now. Also everyone has predictive text nowadays so you don’t even need to physically type the whole word all the time. I just think the DD DH DC thing is just being a touch lazy if I’m honest.

Oh dear! Won't somebody think of the Twitter users?

@ObviouslyNameChanged99 , baby dancing?! Yes, you win, that's worse than DTD!!

Don’t add it if you don’t want to, problem solved 😂

Mumdsnet?

I agree OP, it's twee as fuck.

which meant that entirely innocent references to Scunthorpe became S**horpe.)

A forum I used to go on years ago, converted Scunthorpe to S"frontbottom"thorpe.

You're allowed to say cunt here

I get that, I was using it as an example of how other forums have some kind of censoring software that automatically overwrites things. Mn presumably could amuse itself by autoconverting 'DH' to 'DickHead'.

When you read it in your head, do you read as Darling Husband or DH? I read as DH but if I read something aloud to someone, I read it as Darling Husband.

You're allowed to say cunt here

Well aware of that, it was an example of what the forum did.

I do hate DTD though, surely sex is the same amount of letters?

Betty Boo is a (valued) regular poster here, and she gets so upset by people referring to it as sex, we put it to the vote a few years back and all agreed to stick to 'DTD' #bekind.

My DAunt has always said she'd like to become a MNer, but she just finds all the confusing abbreviations so daunting.

I completely agree that 'DH' is an ultra embarrassing, mega cringey way of referring to your hubalub.

Can we say Dcunt ?

Using D_ makes it easier to skim read a post and make sense of it because the characters involved stand out more - a bit like using a coloured font just for the people.

It's also a great leveller. Even posters who present themselves in a rather grand manner, follow the petty rules of the MN abbreviations game slavishly. It reminds you that they are Mildred from number 7 faffing about online, just as you are Mavis from number 22 faffing about online.

DHamster always makes me laugh quite a lot. It's worth all the other Ds just for that

Using D_ makes it easier to skim read a post and make sense of it because the characters involved stand out more - a bit like using a coloured font just for the people.

Unless they do the annoying alphabet thing.

"I was abroad on holiday with 8 other friends - let's call them DA, DB, DC, DD, DE, DF, DG & DH - in a shared villa. On the Monday, DD got an urgent phone call from her DH to say that their DD had taken ill, so her DA had driven her to the hospital. Last year, we had the same thing, but in that case, it was DC's DB who messaged her to let her know he'd discovered that her DH had had an affair in the past with a colleague who worked with their DF and had a secret DC with her. It turns out that DE's DA, whose adult DC had also worked there at the time (part-time, as she looked after their DD two days a week), knew all along..."

Keep it

The problem isn't solved if everyone else is using it!

To be fair dDog actually is dear dh isnt always 😁.

Yes I refuse to use it.

So you want to control what everyone else does just because it irritates you?

The problem isn't solved if everyone else is using it!

' Problem' . Seriously?

No matter how irritating I find the silly abbreviations, I think the most annoying thing of all is the bizarre way in which some posters say 'let's call them xx' when referring to an anonymous friend etc.

That is annoying, but to Dme the pinnacle of annoying is when the DOP presents the two sides as DPerson A and DPerson B and doesn't say who they are.