Abbreviations and gender focus

[clutha]

My fiance and i joined mumsnet seperately but dont post very often, as we both have difficulty comprehending posts, due to the abbreviations.

We are both seasoned forum users, and are well versed in acronymns common to fora.
However, those on mumsnet seem unique to mumsnet.

Is their a guide for these?

Also as the propsective father, I am interested to know if mumsnet is so called as it is a forum geared up specifically for mothers, as opposed to parents?
Hence why their is a section for women's rights, but not men's rights, as one example.

Does this mean that mumsnet isnt set up for myself, but i should be frequenting a 'parentsnet'?
And if so, can you reccommend a forum for this?

StewieGriffinsMom
Here's the thing, there are lots of parenting fora out there. If MN doesn't float your boat, it doesn't float your boat. You had a nosey and decided you didn't like it. Not a big deal

I didnt do that, i had a nosey, didnt know if it was for me, started a feedback thread, got some good ideas.
Found some ways around my obstacles, decided to carry on.
You have jumped to your own conclusion there.

Coming back to complain about how it needs to change to meet your needs when it already meets the needs of the hundreds of thousands of people who regularly post here is just a teeny bit narcisstic.

I didnt, see above paragrpah. I left my thread alone, as i had settled in. Some others, including ourself, came along at a later date, as one naturally expects on a foum (so no probs) with either some misunderstandings of their own or to tell me the acronyms arent that common or are the same as used on other forums, both of which are factually incorrect.
So I rejoined the ongpoing discussion they had intitiated toward me.

southeastastra

blimey you like to go on don't you - just post on threads or start some - stop naval gazing

See above.
Also, thats exactly what I have done.
Take a look.
Again, jumping to your own conclusion.

SoupDragon

*"Acronyms above and beyond the list are discouraged Soup"

[shrug] Never seen it being discouraged at all*.

Thank you soupdragon, thats my observation as well

LoveBeingADaddysGirl

*Out of interest which topics have kept/got rid of?

Also just wonder which ones your dp found difficult to get to grips with?*

My fiance didnt have trouble with the topics, only the regular unusual acronyms.
For example, you would have just thrown a curve at her, she would know be thinking: "DP??? Eh???"

We both figured well, H would be husand, W wife.
But what n'the hell is all this D stuff about????
Once we found out, we thought, but why???
It seems overly complicating when you can just have H or W or S OR D, which anyone could any newbie could work out straight away means husband, wife, son, and daughter, once you read the posts.

So D = Dear, but im really scratching my head to find a 'P word' for my fiance/girfriend/wife???

Mmmango

Please review use of 'their' vs 'there'. Thanks

Dont know if thats for me?
But why?
Like i said, my struggles arent related to grammer. I couldnt care less about grammaticla precision, as long as their is basic english comprehension.
Grammar nazis are one of my pet hates

men's rights

great idea, maybe we could also have a section where white people could talk about how hard they have it because of immigration?

Apologies for typos, and a couple of the quoted passages didnt come up emboldend, as attempted.
Another advantage of my other forums, you can can back and edit

i did look - you like pets i see

well go back to your other forums then you're obviously happier there where you can edit and probably get the attention you are craving

spidookly

*men's rights hmm

great idea, maybe we could also have a section where white people could talk about how hard they have it because of immigration*

++++Assuming+++ I have followed your argument correctly (??), wouldnt your logic then apply to the presecence of a women's section as well?

Funny how you have been directed to the list of acronymns yet seem determined not to look at them.

Btw if you feel you gave been attacked by a grammer Nazi then this really isn't the place for you.

Most forums have a varity if subject areas, you don't have to join s parenting one if there is another you prefer.

BluTac Sat

Yes it might take you a while to get used to the acronyms. Only you can decide if you think it's worth it. Thousands of people think it is. Oh and equality for women is not the same thing as man-bashing, is it?

Thanks blutac, its good to hear some take my posts in the spirit they were posted and replying accordingly.

Just out of interest though, i would have to say to yourself and the couple of posters whom posted about the same thing after you did, i never used the phrase man-bashing, nor ever made any posts charactising it that way.
I certainly have never made any comments equating equality for women with man bashing.

Someone else made an assumption on my behalf early on, now it seems to have been applied to me.

Funnylittlefrog

*Blimey. It's a good job not all newcomers start threads like this!

Most of us just click on threads we are interested in, contribute if we have something to say and ignore the rest. Really quite simple.*

Indeedy so, just like wot i do

LoveBeingADaddysGirl

Btw if you feel you gave been attacked by a grammer Nazi then this really isn't the place for you

Can you direct me where i just made this statement?
You could read it again?
You may notice my asking a ++++question++++ of another poster?

You seem to be mistaking my replying to +++someone else's+++ initiation of a topic or point as having been my point.

Which seems to be a occuring across a few posts on this thread

Most forums have a varity if subject areas, you don't have to join s parenting one if there is another you prefer.

Again, where and when did i say i didnt prefer joining a parenting forum.

Sorry, but you really are coming across as obtuse now....my very first post on this tyhread asked about any recommendations for parenting forums!!!
And if i wasnt interested in a parenting forum, why the hell would i be wasting my time on MN???

Really?

Clutha - would you be better off on a pets forum?

a) i already have been for years

and

b) well, not when im expecting a baby, no

Mumsnet didn't invent DD, DS etc. I.m not sure what acronyms they invented... AIBU and other associated ones and maybe some of the special needs (SN) ones. All the others have been imported, wholesale, from other websites.

You said grammer Nazis were a pet hate during your answer to someone who corrected your use of their and there, it was not a question.

I didn't say you wouldn't prefer a parenting site, I said maybe a site you already prefer, that has all the things you have said you prefer to have, has a parents section and maybe you would be happier there.

You have ignored my comment regarding the acronym list I notice.

As to why you are wasting your time here, no idea either!

cross post (XP. Although that could also mean ExPartner and I have never been in a relationship with Stewie)

I think Clutha realised it wasn't a question and was accusing the poster of being a grammer nazi. Which, although I take exception to the use of the word Nazi, is entirely correct.

Soupdrahon no he made a bug point of saying it was s question in one of his bold copy and paste jobs

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I think you have too much time on your hands Clutha.

Well, if you are really StewieGriffinsMom, I think I'd remember :o