The use of acronyms on Gransnet

And, I agree! This is how GN is either do it or don't. I do get fed up with people joining and then trying to change how things are. Change might happen over time but, at the moment, lots of us use acronyms. Cope with it!

Yes Merlot you're so right, it must be a slow week, and I might just liven things up a bit by saying I think there are some b****y rude and judgemental posters on this thread who are talking through their AHs. Lazy and discourteous what a plonker!

The illusion to my late MiL (that's mother-in-jaw for those too stupid to figure it out) was because she was one of those pathetic old biddies who couldn't move with the times and was Never Wrong . She insisted on calling gay people 'queers' and Asians 'pakis' (no matter what country they came from) and thought that the civilised world ended at Dover. She deplored Trades Unions (despite being poor working class, in the days when that really meant working class), thought it unacceptable that women should be doctors, that wifes should pander to their menfolk, that young folk setting up house together was 'living in sin' and refused to learn how to use a computer (the Internet is evil, that's where you learn t make bombs) and so on and on and on.

She wouldn't have liked acronyms either the old trout bless her! Her son, my OH, is getting just like her and I'm pretty fed up and feel like telling him to STFU and find something important to moan about

I'm afraid the temptation to join something then moan about it and want to criticise isn't just confined to Gransnet. My book club got somebody like that and we were all too polite (not "lazy and discourteous") to tell her to sling her hook and it's changed the easy going atmosphere we had, 2 friends have voted with their feet and things are not the same any more.
GN (Gransnet, got it?) is what we make it and so far it's fine as it is.

I like verbal acronyms too. During my career in the Civil Service they were used liberally and often with irony e g JFDI (just xxxxing do it ) wish I'd known CBA then! I also like the challenge of working them out. One day I rang Regional Office (RO) and was told they were in the BOM meeting. In a split second I decided that BM stood for Business Manager but the O stumped me. So I asked "what's a BOM". The reply was "a round, black thing that explodes" LMAO.

If its your username you are entitled to spell and punctuate it as you choose. IYSWIM . Bring on the acronyms.

Maggieanne Don't like 'em! Should that not be "I do not like them".If you object to acronyms why write in "poor" grammar.

In a way it could still be seen as lazy writing in the same way acronyms are.

For goodness sake everybody! Live and let live, and that applies to BOTH sides of the argument.

Morning, Anya

Yes. Morning Anya.

Anya, for the avoidance of doubt, I was not being facetious but admiring you saying it how it is. (Is there an acronym for that - SIHII?)

I said something as blunt last weekend and felt the need to start a thread to apologise, which created another problem.

I should like to propose the establishment of a Pointless Thread of the Week Award, and to launch it by nominating this one as the first winner (although there has been some tough competition).

Other suggestions please.

grumppa . I have to agree this one is a worthy winner!

Grumppa

Only ' one ' pointless thread per week.

No doubt it would lead to the thread deciding which to choose would end up being the pointless thread chosen knowing us lot

'Good moaning' jingl & kitty & grumpa Used to enjoy 'Allo 'Allo! Or should I write Hello Hello?

Don't know about 'Allo 'Allo it is more like Monty Python's argument sketch though not sure if it is the 5 minute or the full half hour ?

GMV grumppa. BOOMS with this thread now.

I like using acronyms cuz it gives me more time to focus on what I want to say, rather than have to write out "daughter-in-law" or "mother-in-law" and so on every time. It's not so time consuming to write out words like "son," of course. But if I'm going to say DD, then I feel I should also say DS and so forth.

I'm not trying to be like the young people - and acronyms, by themselves, aren't necessarily "textspeak." But I admit that sometimes the younger people have some good ideas. And, IMO, using acronyms in these conversations is one of them.

No one has to use them, of course. But it seems they're here to stay and if that means looking some of them up, now and then, so be it. After a while, I've found I can figure most of them out, myself, anyhow. I get the concern about the "flow of conversation." But, in time, that gets easier, so no big deal, in my book.

That being said, I don't mind this thread either, I think it's good that gransnetters feel they can voice their complaints, if any, even if it's about something so simple as acronyms. So I'm cool with this thread, 2old4hotpants, even though I don't agree with your concern.

Wendysue ditto your last paragraph.

I can type almost as fast as I think (useful for writing essays) and am anal about abbreviations on many things - cannot even bring myself to knock the 'shire' off when addressing envelopes.

However this is a chat forum and therefore speed is of the essence, so the acronyms are a jolly good thing! it's so much quicker than writing it out in full, and although I am punctilious in letters I do want to get posts down quickly as I feel guilty spending time on GN as I ought to be doing other things. Some are a bit confusing but I usually skip those if I can't work them out. Still it's whatever suits.

Happy about the D bit as all my family are. I wouldn't use it for friends though.

Anya your MiL sounds a nightmare and I thank my lucky stars for my wonderful, yes, DM and FiL.

Someone mentioned 'Allo 'Allo - love it still. And the French HATE it!! We love to wind them up about it, very funny. One French friend in London hasn't lived down her saying in a heavy French accent ' I see nothing funny in a load of stupid Brits speaking in a silly French accent'. Well, we all nearly wet ourselves.

The acronyms drive me bananas. The users all sound like a clique I'm not a member of. Fortunately i have enough friends who still speak normally.

The thing is that if you are posting on GN then you are a part of that clique because they are shown on the site.

I have friends on this site who POST using acronyms and friends in RL who speak with out abbreviations and, strangely, when we meet up we all speak normally.

I notice the ones objecting to the acronyms are posters we hear very little, if anything, from. hmm]

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It isn't half term is it?

This thread has put a smile on my Mrs Grumpy face!!! ?

I think that was my point too jingl, do you think a gang from "the other place" decided to o and wind up those grannies on Gransnet?
Accusations of cliqueyness are nonsense anyway. I think it has either been a wind up or that some "newbies" have decided to throw their weight about assert themselves.
More fool us for taking any notice