Acronyms DDiL DSiL DMiL DFiL requested please

ixion

How do you address yours, EP?

Alas I have never been married, so no mother-in-law. but had it happened I think that I would, if she had agreed, have addressed her as Auntie Given-name, as, being both a generational difference and in a family setting, that would have seemed best in my opinion.

Please note I am here expressing my opinion of what I would have done, I am not in any way saying what other people should or should not do.

FannyCornforth

FannyCornforth

That has been tried various times EP

A variety of threads at numerous times, rather

Well, try again.

From a fresh start.

No need to say that in year X you were asked Y but you did not act et cetera et cetera and moan.

Please remember the saying "Do not grumble away your opportunities."

You could start a new thread now and ask politely what you want, report the post to GNHQ and maybe you will be successful.

Please form an orderly queue EP.
These threads refer to faulty aspects of the Gransnet site, and are still awaiting resolution-

www.gransnet.com/forums/technology/1302404-Help?msgid=29005243

www.gransnet.com/forums/site_stuff/1302343-Safe-Browsing-Site-Status?msgid=29012016

EP I, and others, would like the Search Function to work.
We have asked; reminded; started threads; posted on threads; emailed; and reported.
It still doesn’t work.
Likewise the malfunctioning Active List.

Cross post with ixion

Many thanks to Calistemon for supporting this request.

I did say I understood what you meant, ElderlyPerson and agree but I the acronyms aren't compulsory so we can call our daughters-in-law DDIL if we wish etc.
Or write it out in full each time (if we can be bothered).

And I did point out that 'D' could mean anything we like

It's all rather daft anyway.
If I was chatting about a son, a daughter, my husband to someone in Real Life then I wouldn't refer to them as 'Dear Daughter', 'Dear Son' or 'Dear Husband' (or Darling either).

Oh, and I also instigated The GN Day of Action, with others, so I do have form!

^My dear husband is being a pain in the neck^’?

Doodledog?

Perhaps HI?
(Him Indoors)
Unless he's outside of course!

Calistemon yes, it’s just a bit of a joke really. Another poster described it as ‘a community thing’.

D = Damn often !!

FannyCornforth

Oh, and I also instigated The GN Day of Action, with others, so I do have form!

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How often has it been said that you dont need to be given permission to use any a abbreviation you choose.
DDIL, PITA, FH if you want or not.
This is not an Enid Blytonesque secret society where set rules must be followed. Conventions or abbreviations are offered i.e. suggested . No more no less.
Now unless we need to consult HQ on permitted paint drying times, I am sure there are more pressing topics for discussion.
And please, please can we not go down the auntie Jane rabbit hole again.

I prefer to type and read full words - I think that acronyms spoil the flow of reading a post - sometimes I feel I am reading a coded message from a spy and often have to give up as I have lost the plot.

I don’t need any more abbreviations.
I’ve just watched a programme where DC was acceptable but AC was being publicised as something dangerous!
Nothing to do with offspring but possibly right all the same.

Another No here, I think you stand alone EP

Ro60

Another No here, I think you stand alone EP

Yes I probably do.

Yet if nobody ever puts an idea forward lest the idea might be rejected or even ridiculed, then some ideas that do get through might never have been put forward nor implemented.

So, c'est la vie and move on.

Doddery or dopey springs to mind for me.

MayBeMaw wrote

> And please, please can we not go down the auntie Jane rabbit hole again.

Ah, what we do not know is whether that idea has been taken up. That idea might have been just what was needed in some families and some people might have seen the post and thought it a good idea and applied it in practice.

It could perhaps be helpful to mention the idea in the Gransnet page about mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships. as a possibility, not at all obligatory.

I think I had my fill of acronyms with Line of Duty!

The CHIS reported to the MIT about a member of the OCG and the decision was made to send out the AFOs in an ARV. Several GSW were heard and a FI attended the scene along with the ACC.
As a result, PIM and NABIS were called in.

Calistemon. What, no mention of the wee donkey?

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I was busy floating up the LIAB!

Oh crikey EP that article is one of hundreds they churn out, it's not a legal document, they will have not given it a second thought after they churned it out. They wont have seen any link between that and their abbreviations. Its bland saccharine advice to fill up some space (sorry GN). They probably have an article somewhere on speaking respectfully but they still allow the use of this emoji.

Being brought up in an army family, acronyms were an integral part of my life.

Galaxy

Oh crikey EP that article is one of hundreds they churn out, it's not a legal document, they will have not given it a second thought after they churned it out. They wont have seen any link between that and their abbreviations. Its bland saccharine advice to fill up some space (sorry GN). They probably have an article somewhere on speaking respectfully but they still allow the use of this emoji.

Well it has been published and that makes it a Matter of Public Interest, so they have opened the door to comments.

I noticed that it does not carry a date.

When you say it is not a legal document, what exactly do you mean?

It has been published and it needs to be archived by The British Library.

The lack of a date on the publication is unhelpful to future historians as well as present day readers.

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