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I hear you tinaff

Join the club sodapop
(not this thread though)

My previous post was deleted because I inadvertently mentioned a certain garment - sorry.

Yes we can do that Maw but I agree with tinafl a long post with a lot of these abbreviations is definitely off putting for me.

Sigh
Don’t do it if you don’t want to.
If it is the convention of the site, live with it.

I do understand the abbreviations now but find all the darlings & dears extremely irritating. Do people actually prefix daughter, son, husband with dear & darling in real life? I certainly don't know anyone who does. I use words not abbreviations or acronyms in text messages too.

I think its telling that the in-law abbreviations never have the Dear/Darling in front of them whereas all the other relations do.

Agree with mcem who posted earlier in the thread that these are not acronyms but abbreviations. Gransnet should change the heading on list.

Get what your saying SparklyGrandma but when it's a long post about different family members with loads of abbreviation I just look and then CBA ?

I thought DH, DD, DDiL, DS etc were either affectionate, or said with irony through gritted teeth.
Makes it entertaining guessing which. Dear as a prefix can be seen in different ways...

Why what?

Why?

Just substitute darned/dreaded/dratted/damned?

Me neither.
It sounds very twee if you say it out loud.

I get the part about acronyms, but what I don't get is why it has to be dear or darling in front of them ( retreats behind the sofa ? )

Message deleted by Gransnet. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

Seems to have banged that thread on the head
What’s next?

That’s GransNet by the way

It wasn’t my list Bluebelle I merely copied and pasted the Acronyms page kindly provided by GN.

I don’t need MawBoons list ?I m intelligent enough to work most of them out but I think like some people don’t have an ear for languages or even music I don’t automatically read a post littered with abbreviations and understand it It muddles me, I have to go back and read it again saying the full word in my head to get the gist

I think it’s sloppy in an age when we go on about teens and their text speak and frankly a bit hypercritical

I think the darling, dreary, difficult stuff is awful who in this day and age constantly refers to their darling husband or darling daughter if it’s copied off Mumsnet let them keep it aren’t we able to be individual in our thinking

Anyway rant well and truely over I will continue writing the full word and thoroughly appreciate the posts that do so too and avoid some of the long threads littered with DD s and DSs and leave those for you clever people who read them easily

I just don’t use them! I would never refer to Mr P as “ darling or dear husband”.

EllanVannin - also did Pitmans shorthand many, many years ago and still remember short forms etc. Oh the days!

I don't like them either but don't think it's ever going to change........so I always type out everything in full and at least people can read my posts easily!!

They do it on the News too....