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To hate all this DH, DD, DP, abbreviation stuff

90 replies

Lac365 · 25/03/2010 17:52

Half the time I have no idea what everyone is going on about. BTDT, DH, DD, DP, YABU etc, etc,

Grrrrrrrrr

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Pikelit · 25/03/2010 17:53

YABU. Is it compulsory to be on here?

StewieGriffinsMom · 25/03/2010 17:53

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Mermaidspam · 25/03/2010 17:53

see here

purpleturtle · 25/03/2010 17:57

YABU

MaMight · 25/03/2010 17:58

IMO YABU IYKWIM.

HTH.

Indaba · 25/03/2010 17:58

Am with you!

PixieOnaLeaf · 25/03/2010 17:58

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southeastastra · 25/03/2010 17:59

lac365 - what sort of name is that! i personally hate names that are dull like yours so there

ruddynorah · 25/03/2010 18:01

imvho, yabtu iyswim

TopanTail · 25/03/2010 18:01

lolol
pmsl
rofl

Do ya ....do you hate the grins too? lololol

ReneRusso · 25/03/2010 18:01

YABU, it doesn't take long to learn what they mean and it saves a lot of typing

hocuspontas · 25/03/2010 18:01

BTDT? What's that?

Lac365 · 25/03/2010 18:03

Been there, done that!

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SirBoobAlot · 25/03/2010 18:04

IMHO, YABVU.

groundhogs · 25/03/2010 18:07

Oh YAWN.... that's not an acronym btw...

This thread has been done to DEATH!

It's not just MN that does this, you know? Welcome to the Internet OP....

Tiredmumno1 · 25/03/2010 18:13

Ta hocus and lac i was wondering what that one meant myself lol. Sorry i mean laugh out loud

FairyCakeBump · 25/03/2010 18:15

YANBU.

I hate most of the abbreviations. What makes me laugh is that I can imagine most people on here getting wound up with 'text speak', but the abbreviations are hardly better.

elmofan · 25/03/2010 18:16

lol

PrettyCandles · 25/03/2010 18:20

So read the acronyms thread or page or whatever it now is.

LetThereBeRock · 25/03/2010 18:22

YABU.Text speak is fine when one is texting but not online. Abbreviations however are part of the language and culture of the internet and have been for quite a long time now,certainly since I began to use the internet in 1997.
It's appropriate to use them online, so long as one's conversation doesn't consist solely of abbreviations.

BertieBotts · 25/03/2010 18:26

DD, DH etc is necessary because if someone started going on about "Fred" how do you know if they mean their husband, their son or their budgie? Hard to keep track of 1000+ posters' families so the abbreviations are necessary.

The others I can understand you getting annoyed with but there are abbreviation lists and MN doesn't overuse them in my experience. Not like other places where they are like "LOL" all the time

overmydeadbody · 25/03/2010 18:29

Don't use them if you don't like them.

If you don't know what others are on about, then read the bloody acronym list. Not hard.

And I agree with SEA, not a fan of dull names.

Hullygully · 25/03/2010 18:31

Fuck off we don't care what you think.

No offence and that.

JackBauer · 25/03/2010 18:34

To be serious when you are typing ona fast moving thread it is much easier to use DH or DD1/2 than 'my husband' or 'my eldest daughter', 'my youngest child'.
and on veyr fast mving threads time is off the essence. Plus it would make thread titles awfully long.

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