Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Site stuff

Join our Innovation Panel to try new features early and help make Mumsnet better.

See all MNHQ comments on this thread

Flip

1 2 3

Original poster

Abbreviations

57 replies

JacqViride · 04/04/2019 12:05

I’m a father trying to get some advice and there’s probably something in here that could probably really help me but to be honest it’s all so confusing, mainly because you all choose to say things life DD, DH, DS & EBF and expect everyone else to understand, it’s really frustrating, please stop this lazy trend because your actually writing things down that can really help a lot of people but those people don’t understand what your saying, they don’t want to go through the process of registering then asking and feeling stupid for asking and they end up exiting the site to look elsewhere when quite possibly the exact info and advice they needed was right infront of them and they missed it.

If you really want to help people then please don’t use abbreviations

OP posts:

RLOU30 · 04/04/2019 12:08

www.mumsnet.com/info/acronyms

HTH

AuntieStella · 04/04/2019 12:10

MNHQ - did you turn if the 'auto translate' option then?

Is seems like it's nit working for this poster.

And the language of MN is important. It is disctinctive, and like all communities with their own slang, it is a cohesive force (much studied!). It's not a 'lazy trend' by any stretch.

If you do not like it, then there are lots and lots of other online communities with different speech habits, some of which you might immediately feel more at home with.

TrojanWhore · 04/04/2019 12:11

Oh look!

A man has arrived to tell a thriving group (predominantly women) that they've been doing it wrong for a couple of decades!

BelindasRedPlasticHandcuffs · 04/04/2019 12:13

YABU OP.

EmpressLesbianInChair · 04/04/2019 12:15

TSSDNCOP.

ShirleyPhallus · 04/04/2019 12:15

You can only exit the site if you flounce. Please op

caughtinanet · 04/04/2019 12:17

I don't know how many users MN has every day but the vast majority of them manage to find out what the abbreviations mean and access the wealth of information. Rather than asking a well established website to change for you maybe think that there's probably a list somewhere and either look for it or ask for help.

FlaviaAlbia · 04/04/2019 12:19

Maybe it would help if we used these instead?

Peterpiperpickedwrong · 04/04/2019 12:20

JacqVirde I admit it can be a bit baffling to begin with (I spent a lot of time googling )but with the link RLOU30 has posted you will soon get the hang of it.

INeedNewShoes · 04/04/2019 12:20

Maybe the acronyms serve as a useful filter.

Aimily · 04/04/2019 12:25

I'm in the same boat as Peterpiperpickedwrong aha, I had to do some googling before I realised there was a translation thread 🙈

Original poster

JacqViride · 04/04/2019 14:40

Wow really? I only wanted the info people like you give to actually help people understand it better, I know it’s called mumsnet but this site is for fathers too. Am I wrong for wanting this page to help everyone with kids involved?

OP posts:

myrtleWilson · 04/04/2019 14:51

You've been given the link to abbreviations so hopefully you can now work the site

MNHQ

AnyaMumsnet · 04/04/2019 15:02

Hi there OP,

We do now have an acronym translator built into the site. You can find all the info you need here.

Original poster

JacqViride · 04/04/2019 15:08

It’s no wonder a lot of fathers won’t go on sites like this because iv been met with so much hostility and throwing yet more abbreviations at me really doesn't help.
Thank you for the links and the comments that do help but that’s not the point I was getting at, the point was that a lot of really good info is missed because so many people can’t be bothered to type significant other or other words that involve more than 5 letters, it sucks, so many of you really don’t realise just how useful the advice your given and the questions your asking are, and it’s being missed by so many. I know what I’m saying isn’t going to be welcome and I’ll probably be met with more hostility and more abbreviations but I really don’t care because I know what I’m saying is right and there really is a lot of people in that are missing this info. It’s sad to see and I probably won’t make a difference but it’s worth a try if it means it’ll help a few extra people. Anyway I’ll probably unregister soon after this message because I can tell I’m not welcome.

OP posts:

VanGoghsDog · 04/04/2019 15:12

Man speaks for 'so many people'.

You know every one of us was new here once, right?

You are welcome. Maybe your current attitude is not?

BelindasRedPlasticHandcuffs · 04/04/2019 15:15

Am I wrong for wanting this page to help everyone with kids involved?

Not at all. However, coming onto an established site and saying the regular posters (who are the ones providing the help that you are looking for) are following a 'lazy trend' and lecturing on how to post in a way you deem better isn't the best way to ask for help that people would otherwise happily give.

Incidentally, plenty of fathers, grandparents, childcare professionals and non-parents use the site and acronyms too. It's isn't mothers trying to make it difficult for you.

but I really don’t care because I know what I’m saying is right

Wow

@AnyaMumsnet as an aside, is it possible to have a banner or sticky thread or similar highlighting 'Things to note when you're new' like the acronym translator and how to highlight Op posts to make it easier? The pages can all look a bit intimidating at the beginning with all of the boards etc so maybe an 'Intro to Talk' would be useful?

SoupDragon · 04/04/2019 15:16

It’s no wonder a lot of fathers won’t go on sites like this because iv been met with so much hostility and throwing yet more abbreviations at me really doesn't help.

Maybe if you hadnt insulted everyone in your first post it would have gone better. No one cares whether you have a penis or not, just manners.

TheQueef · 04/04/2019 15:17

What you crying about someone has already given you the link for acronyms?
Pop off and read it then.

Original poster

JacqViride · 04/04/2019 15:38

Anyamumsnet

I hope your reading all this because this is why the website won’t go any further than it has,

OP posts:

TeddyIsaHe · 04/04/2019 15:41

I am man, listen to me whinge about something I don’t understand and then belittle everyone because the silly women don’t do as I ask immediately.

DFOD

BelindasRedPlasticHandcuffs · 04/04/2019 15:51

I hope your reading all this because this is why the website won’t go any further than it has

Won't go any further than being one of the most well known and respected parenting resources in the UK because you were rude and couldn't handle being called out for it?

You say that with such authority. Please, tell us more about your highly successfully website and it's audience of millions of users from around the globe every month...

We can all come along to take a look and then flounce of when people don't take kindly to us slating the site and it's regular users.

TheQueef · 04/04/2019 16:06

Someone is overtired.

caughtinanet · 04/04/2019 17:05

Are you suggesting OP that the menz are incapable of working out a few abbreviations that us women have managed without having to tell the millions of other users to stop being lazy and write words out in full?

I defy you to find any large worldwide forum that doesn't use both abbreviations that are commonplace across the internet as well as it4 own specific ones.

The basics - DH, DD, DS, OP etc pre-date MN, there are very few that you'll only find here.

SoupDragon · 04/04/2019 17:27

I hope your reading all this because this is why the website won’t go any further than it has

Why? Because of your rudeness? That seems a little arrogant on your part.

Flip

1 2 3