to feel violently irritated by people who don't use acronyms properly?

[EccentricaGallumbits]

most often mixed up appear to be AFAIK nd IIRC.

There's a bloody list up there women. Use it.

Actually, IKWYM Thingumy. YABVU OP FFS.

can i be the first to point out that most of the abbreviations in this thread aren't acronyms?

I hate the acronyms-although I use them to fit in. I have no idea what AFAIK or IIRC mean and can't be bothered to find out!

TEH is a typo of the!

YABU - I'm new to all this Mumsnet melarky and therefore am new to the abbreviations. It takes a while to get used to it and I still don't know what half of them mean.

To look at the list everytime I want to comment is a bit time consuming.

Anyway, why can't I just write daughter or son or hubby or whatever. Why do I need to abbreviate???

Thank goodness for this thread! All this time..
Perhaps if the 'Acronyms / abbreviations' link were in red I might have noticed it.
Now of course - it seems so obviously obvious

Flo we abbreviate for speed

if you don't know what they are why would you be using them?

If you want to point out hat If you recall correctly something then by all means use IIRC but not if you don't know what it means FFS.

It depends - AIBU to be irritated by people who don't know the difference between an acronym and an initialism? Glass houses, etc...

I see that the real cringe worthy ones have been removed -it must have been in response to the last thread like this.

Which were the cringeworthy ones?

Sex was called 'baby dancing'!! Not surprisingly I never saw any one using it. Another one was so bizarre that I can't even remember what it was. (at least I think it was-perhaps someone can back me up or correct me).

Baby Dancing ewwwwwwwww! I bloody hate that one. Not keen on Auntie Flo either.

That was it-Auntie Flo-what did it mean? It has been removed.

It meant Period!!!

I knew it was cringe worthy! The last thread must have done some good because I see they have both gone!

Hurray!

I think the problem is that you get so used to seeing them you can get sucked into to using them. Not that I would ever say baby dancing!

Bit odd that threads will be full of the most personal, intimate details yet posters cannot bring themselves to say 'we had sex last night'

Yes chegirl, expecially when it seems perfectly fine to have whole threads on bum sex

But what does troll mean? I cant work that on out

A troll is someone who starts a deliberately provocative thread then stand back and waits for it to kick off.

They are like 'I think that people who are infertile should just get used to the idea and stop moaning' or 'my best friend came round my house and stole my puppies then kicked me in the head, was i wrong to call her a fecking whore?' Sometimes they are v.funny but usually they are mean and/or very attention seeking.

Troll spotting is an olympic sport on MNs

My MiL and SiL (neither of whom rank in my favourite people list...) use LOL at the end of texts/ emails .. presume they think it means Lots of Love, but can't tell you how annoying it is when, for example, they send a 'sympathetic' message about an accident that dc has had or something similar and then end it with LOL ... you can't shake the mental image of them rolling about with laughter at my misery.

Yes, I know IABU but this is the effect that they have on me. Am otherwise a perfectly lovely and reasonable person

I've just realised we used to do something similar to trolling at school in RE lessons. Someone would say something like 'If there's a Heaven, do you think Hitler would've got in?' and set the class off on a heated debate, and waste the whole lesson. Great way to avoid work.

Sorry, bit off topic there.

It took me ages to get the hang of the abbreviations on here. OH was a particular mystery. I thought it meant Old Husband for a while.

Thanks for clearing that whole troll thing up. Im still relitivly new on MN and would get a bit confused when people start disscussing if the OP was a troll. Usually on a good meaty thread too

What really really really bugs me is when people say ie when they mean eg.

(not just on MN, everywhere)

(and breathe)

(or breath, which also makes me hyperventilate)