Fed up of seeing Acronyms in comments

Anyone who reads my posts will know that they are peppered with typos and misspellings and missed words. I do try to read them before I post sometimes, having finished a post wih a fine flourish of a sentence I press 'post' without thinking.

I can feel the GrannyGrunters of this word leaping to their mobile phones/ ipads/talets/laptops to lecture me on being carefully lways proof reading etc - and I couldn't agree more with them BUT

I have dyspraxia. It is a neural problem that affects fine movement and communication between brain and muscle. It makes using a smart phone extremely difficult, because even if I know the order of icons to press, my fingers choose their own order. most icons are so small it is a miracle if i hit the right one, and only the one I want, and not a generous selection.

It means when typing on computer keyboard, which is my preferred method of electronic communication, where the success rate of hitting the right keys is quite good, I cannot stop the signals from brain to finger transposing letters, or even jumbling them up totally, or adding random letters at will.

Add to this that a carpal tunnel operation has left me with numb finger tips on my right hand and you will understand why I like accronyms and will continue to use them.

I do agree constant text speak acronyms can be irritating but the ones we use all the time DH, DD, DS, AIBU, etc are a real help.

I would also make a plea to those twinkle fingered people who were touch typists after a day's tuition and who always proof read and never post anything with an error try to show a bit more humility and gratitude for your skills and some understanding for those of us, who would love to be touch typists and perfect proof readers and have spent many fruitless hours attempting to be so before finding that the problem lies with their neural wiring and they have no more chance of reaching their standard of perfection than fly.

There are many other disabilities and illnesses that make typing difficult, mine is just one example.

This post has become really entertaining. Thanks OP.

I love it 🤣🤣🤣 “my DH hates me, he bullies me, he’s having an affair and telling me he wants out” …..but he’s still DH not BH (B word I m not allowed to write)
It’s all quite daft isn’t it really
No idea what you’re on about Witzend I never studied alphabet soup at school🤣🤣🤣

Yes just as well Witzend....but I like it as well.

You don't have too Farmor and no one's asking you or anyone else to do so.

It might give Grannygrunter a heart attack, but I must confess that I rather like this one, a MN (Mumsnet) special.
FOTTFSOFATFOSM

I CBA to write it out in full, which is probably just as well.

Another here who dislikes the "D" for dear, darling or whatever in front of husband, daughter etc. I know it is common practice on this type of forum and some people like to abbreviate, but of so, why not just use H or D. Like some others here, I would never refer to my dear or darling husband, so why would I in an abbreviated form?

Katek

I'm confused - how does anyone manage to avoid reading lengthy posts with no/little punctuation? Wouldn't you have to read the post first to discover it had little/no punctuation?? Ergo you've read it.

No - a quick glance of the whole post in total and I can tell there is no punctuation, it is not capitalised and the poster has not drawn breath whilst typing! There's no need to read the whole thing.

Marydoll

I suspect that when a poster is upset or anxious, punctuation and paragraphs are not their priority, The poster just wants to share their troubles and hopes for some support.

However, long lengthy posts, with line after line of no punctuation hurts my eyes and I find it difficult to focus on what the poster is saying.
I usually give up halfway through reading, which is a pity.

Yes, I agree, I always think that I should read it and respond but it's hard work.

I wonder if the op tries to change everything in the world to her way.

I don't see dh as being anything other than a way of writing 'my husband' . That happens in lots of things BBC, NHS (as have been mentioned before)

I agree with nanna8 there is no way I would say Dear Husband in real life and I don't like the Gransnet abbreviations in general.
I see a large block of text as well Elegran and just don't want to wade through it. I understand that the writer may be distressed or angry though.

nanna8

The thing I’m not too keen on is the word ‘dear’. Not used by me or anyone here that I know of. I would never, ever refer to my husband as ‘dear’ husband and same with my children. It just isn’t natural for me and to me it sounds incredibly patronising. Can’t do it.

That’s perfectly all right. What works for you is what you do about these shortcuts. Some of us find them useful. I do think that ‘dear’ is appropriate for me to use about my family, and I have my DGCs’ contact details listed in the same place as DGC1 Euphemia, DGC2 Humphrey etc

Katek

I'm confused - how does anyone manage to avoid reading lengthy posts with no/little punctuation? Wouldn't you have to read the post first to discover it had little/no punctuation?? Ergo you've read it.

You see the post as a whole image before reading it, so it is presented to the brain as a large indigestible block of characters to be cut up and interpreted a bit at a time. The brain says "No thank you." and the eyes refuse to pick out small portions to send to it for processing.

I suspect that when a poster is upset or anxious, punctuation and paragraphs are not their priority, The poster just wants to share their troubles and hopes for some support.

However, long lengthy posts, with line after line of no punctuation hurts my eyes and I find it difficult to focus on what the poster is saying.
I usually give up halfway through reading, which is a pity.

The thing I’m not too keen on is the word ‘dear’. Not used by me or anyone here that I know of. I would never, ever refer to my husband as ‘dear’ husband and same with my children. It just isn’t natural for me and to me it sounds incredibly patronising. Can’t do it.

I'm confused - how does anyone manage to avoid reading lengthy posts with no/little punctuation? Wouldn't you have to read the post first to discover it had little/no punctuation?? Ergo you've read it.

Marydoll

As a pedant, I could point out that I am fed up WITH posters criticising grammar, punctuation etc. However, none of is perfect and it is not good form! 😉

It does rather compromise one's argument though when one is shown to have made a basic grammatical error I never claim such elevation to perfect grammar or spelling, being mostly competent, but certainly not faultless 🤣🤣

As a pedant, I could point out that I am fed up WITH posters criticising grammar, punctuation etc. However, none of is perfect and it is not good form! 😉

Shakespeare's spelling and (lack of) punctuation was well dodgy. Good job there was no 'Bardsnet'

GG,
I am by no means a slow typist, and am far from being poor at spelling.
I won prizes throughout my school life, in primary, junior and Grammar schools, and it was known by all my colleagues during my thirty eight year career that it was faster to check a spelling with me than to use a dictionary, or in more recent years, a spell checker.
I think you are being particularly arrogant in your assumptions!
Incidentally, in your post of 18:26:30, you referred to a Gransnetter as 'mumofbadboys'.
She uses the name 'mumofmadboys'.
Not quite as perfect as you think hey?

Exactly Dickens I hardly missed a beat reading your example. That's why proof reading is such a skilled occupation, you have to be able to overrule the brain's natural "correction".

Yes, I could read and interpret that rapidly, Dickens 😃

My brain can spell but my fingers can't.

Callistemon21

lazily

And spell, too 😂

😂

... that worked well didn't it!

An interesting point: people, generally, are unaware that their brains are well-trained, and that they can spot instantaneously what a mis-spelled word is supposed to be, because it autocorrects.

Try this... your code-cracking brain will understand it...

"For emaxlpe, it deson’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod aepapr, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pcale. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit pobelrm"

Callistemon21

Shouldn't this thread be under AIBU?

I don't think GrannyGrunter even entertains the notion that she might be being unreasonable

Shouldn't this thread be under AIBU?