I'll say it out loud ........ I dislike all the abbreviations on Mumsnet

[paganmolloy]

DD, DH, DP, GF, DS and all the others. I get common abbreviations like etc. Xmas but I feel like I need an entire map legend just to read a post. And if we can all write lengthy posts surely we can just write daughter or son? And why do we have to call them 'dear' anything? It pisses me off! So there! ;)

kk.

Yabu

You don't have to use them, some people think they're twee and unnecessary.
I have to stop myself using dd in real life. I'm not a fan of Xmas myself but don't complain about it.

It's the non common ones that throw me.
I'm normally 4 pages into a thread before I find out what it means

We'll just leave this here....

ODFOD

The abbreviations are part of MN and have been for a long time.

Many of them aren’t specific to MN and are used in other places online.

They really aren’t that hard to learn and you don’t have to use them yourself.

It’s all fine until you get ambiguity about whether the DF in question is the OP’s father or fiancé. Or the DS is the son or sister. The DF confusion, in particular, can produce some raised eyebrows.

I don’t mind them generally but dhamster and dfish etc do piss me off a bit

Well tough! You have to use them, it says so in the legally binding contract they make you sign when you first join. Oh wait, that's bollocks and you don't have to use them at all so just...don't.

you'll get used to it.

otherwise, you may have more success irl.

U ok hun?

This thread happens monthly. MN is well into its second decade. We have a shared language. We are a community. Join in or don't.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3057103-to-really-REALLY-hate-the-acronyms-here

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1635757-To-really-dislike-the-acronym-OH

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/935789-To-hate-all-this-DH-DD-DP-abbreviation-stuff

HTH

Join in or don't. Indeed. All communities, online or offline, develop their own culture.

I will say out ,loud that I don't mind them at all, and I don't even notice them any more.

I have to stop myself saying them in RL

What's wrong with Xmas?

It's 'Iyswim' that I can never remember and have to google every time

My favourite one is PFB ever since one poster confessed she thought it stood for Precious Fucking Baby (until someone told her otherwise)

Oh me too! As for those who say ddog... Absolutely fucking crazy. Just use the initial ffs.

DD1 is so much easier to type and read than 'my eldest daughter' surely? I like them and sometime think the abbreviations rather than the full words anyway iyswim?

I like them, and as pp has pointed out most are widely used and not exclusive to MN .

Do many other people DATAOM? I quite LATAOM as it saves so much time.