No. BlueBelle, it's not my DTH as it's not that comfortable, (particularly if I go to sleep in it by mistake, when it digs in to all sorts of places) whereas I do actually like my family!
I agree Yggdrasil Totally puts me off reading the post when its full of the silly abbreviations. As someone else said at times the dear/darling is inappropriate. Can't see things changing any time soon though.
I never use the prefix "d", it's unnecessary to me. There are some really strange acronyms over on MN for example, I kept seeing posts referring to my "LO" I spent quite a while trying to figure out what a "LO" was and wondering if I'd ever had one Loathsome Offal, maybe ? Eventually I rumbled it, "Little One" apparently! Twee Baby, toddler, child surely!
Well, with predictive text, it's often easier to type the whole word rather than the initials. If it helps, I shall stop using the initials, and write out the words. It really is no trouble.
Well, I like them! In fact, as the DGC acquire mobile phones, I have them listed as DGC1 (name), DGC2 (name) etc, so all the numbers are together and easy to find. The context usually tells you if a Sister-in-law or a son-in-law is meant.
I shall now go and hide behind the sofa with my tin hat on.
I ve said many times I hate it I think it’s lazy (especially when people moan about youngsters and text speak) I put up with it because the majority on here feel they have to follow Mumsnet and use it but it’s a bind for me and I m constantly having to translate in my brain and when you get a long text full of DD s and DSIL s which can be sister or Son in law or even ‘stupid’ in some cases? What if you have a dear sister in law AND a dear son in law,in the same story ohh the mind boggles It’s all ‘trendy’ nonsense yggd may I suggest you do what I do and always write it in full
This has been raised before. I am aware there is a list somewhere to explain it. But I have given up on reading posts that refer to loads of family members by these initials, I just can't make out who is who most of the time. It doesn't take that long to type a whole word. And prefixing everyone with D when the rest of the post is about someone who is clearly not 'dear' to the writer is even more confusing. I can't believe I'm the only one fed up with it :-)