to hate this DS , DD, DP, business??

[Lotster]

I can totally understand why you would abbreviate YANBU, or IYSWIM etc, but it takes no time to type, son, daughter, husband, partner, they're one word!

It makes my teeth grind a bit everytime I red DD1 and DS2, beccause I would never say,
"Why, let me tell you about my dear daughter, or my dear partner", it makes me CRINGE!

Does anyone else feel a twat writing these?

No idea what I would do with another child... I couldn't add a number on the end. Flameboy was Spark during pregnancy, but it would be wrong to give his name away.

I would have to have an MN naming thread

I think I'll go for Lotserspawn.

YABU. Standard internet stuff. Haven't read all the posts, but what gets me is if I'm in a real life conversation and have to stop myself from referring to my DH instead of just my husband.

Just wait until you use "dh" by mistake in rl.

If it bothers you, don't use it. I quite often write about my daughters or my partner. Haven't been chucked off MN yet.

Just how standard is this 'standrard internet parlance' of whivh you speak?

I like the "Flamechick" "Flameboy" "Babydragon" and "Inferiorettes" et al - think they're funny and clever.
Wish there were equivalent for small finknottles.
If you don't like the 'dear' then don't use it.

Lotster

I loathe it when I think about it but have got used to it now, although in my head it's a 'darling' not a 'dear'

And I adore, madly, PFB.

As motherinferior says, use what you like. I do, no pitch forks yet.

I felt very conscious of it at first, couldn't help saying dear partner in my head but that soon stopped. I don't even see the d now, unless I am cross with dh when I type and I might say dickhead to myself and press the key a little harder than usual.

....I find it a trifle odd, too. I tend to refer to my progeny as the urchins (geeky, feral and monozygotic by turn)

But then I am a contrary soul by nature. I have never seen the need to call a 'spade' a 'spade' (or even a bloody shovel) when I could say 'hand-held excavation device' instead.

Sad fucker? Me??

I wish I could have a funny name for my 3 daughters, but since I chose a rubbish nickname, I'm stuck with DD1, 2 and 3. I definitely wouldn't want to use their real names as they deserve their privacy.

MorrisMinor?

They could be your cubs, Poledra?

Of course, motherinferior - I like that Not sure how many people would get it though...

Actually long before I started on MN (waaaaaaay back) I used to refer to my then only child as the Infanta and her dad as the Sprogfather.

RetiredGoth - pmsl.

I like DD for darling daughter, better than baby fairy or small estuary. Don't have a DH or DP, but do have an XP (which is much quicker than typing annoying, useless twunt - maybe MNHQ could add that to the acronym list, I'm sure it would get plenty of airings on lone parents).

Would just like to be clear, just in case, did not mean in OP to make anyone who already uses these terms feel small, as have had many a chat with those that do and understand most people use it to be understood as it is so common and not because they adore the terms...

Just makes me cringe.

I thank you.
x

I don't mind the ds stuff, but i refuse to use AF i am a grown woman so why can't I say period?

the d regularly stands for dickhead as far as dp is concerned, there is rarely anything 'dear' about him!