Acronyms are aggravating!

Sorry I have definitely GOP.

Well, didn’t expect such a response.! TTFN

I agree with BlueBelle the abbreviations are annoying. Sometimes there is a long post which is littered with them, makes me lose the will. I have no idea why its necessary to have 'dear' anyone can they not be just husband, brother etc. Lucca I dislike the word 'hubby' as well, not quite on a par with 'the wife' though.

OMG Cud b worse. Cud b tex spk. SCNR

LauraNorder

WYWSTWY would save lots of time on the political threads.

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CU
CYL

Sodapop. “The wife” can be ironic?

Yes Lucca, hon, dreadful.
Yes it was Mandy Rice Davies. HWSTWH.

HI
(Her Indoors)

Or SWMBO

OMG. Callistemon I was just about to post exactly that! (Literally ?)

Forgot to say ‘obvs’,

HWCBA (I made that one up) just brought me a gin
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Chuckle McChuckle ???

Callistemon IHOAP

No I’m not asking is husband an old age pensioner

I don’t like them so never use them. I get son in law mixed up with sister in law when it’s abbreviated.

IYSWIM?
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Acronyms may annoying but most of us are happy enough with etc, pm,am aren’t we?

But what really makes me squirm is “text speak”
hun, hubs, cuz, gr8, lol, c u and many, many more

I got very confused with one post that referred to the doings of their SIL - I thought it was their son in law but it was their sister in law. Once the penny dropped the post made much more sense.

Totes ridic IMHO.

U OK hun? Pm me. Soz

I've posted a couple times on other threads about same subject. Last one when I took a guess at what SM was for another GNer. It isn't in the list.

One I fail to remember repeatedly is AIBU.

I prefer to type in full with the only exception of DH.

MawBe Same here. My dislike has to be text speak.

I am not keen on acronyms at all.

I’m another who cringes at ‘peeps’. In any case, it’s only one letter shorter than ‘people’ so what’s the point? (I might even say WTF is the point?)

The only thing that aggravated me about ‘dh’ and the like, when I first encountered them around 20 years ago now, was that it took me a little while to work them out - did that mean I was more than normally dense? Was my IQ sadly lacking?
So it was something of a relief when light dawned.

Lucca

I know it’s just me but I’d prefer DH to “hubby” ?

Bit just you Lucca, I hate hubby or hubs.

It seems pointless complaining about acronyms (or abbreviations) because those if us who do use them are unlikely to stop as it is ingrained by now. And, it's not compulsory so don't if you don't want to!

And I too abhor text speak.

When acronyms go wrong....
After my husband died, I came across a site for widows - thought DH meant Dead Husband.
Made perfect sense to me

I don't mind abbreviations /acronyms. Its overuse that annoys me. If a post is littered with them it becones unreadable. I quite often finish texts to my children with ttul.

I absolutely hate hun.