The use of acronyms on Gransnet

I used to have to pause and look some of the less obvious acronyms too, but now I've learned them, they don't bother me.

One doesn't have to put D for dear or darling in front of everything. I don't. If I mention my grandsons, I use GS.

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Urban Dictinary (online) is good.

grr! dictionary

No, I don't think text speak will damage the language. There are lots of occasions when writing really well matters. Online social forums aren't one of those. It's not an exam. We're not writing essays.

I think it's a case of applying my GS1's advice to his dad on one occasion: "Don't worry about it, dad; just go with it". GS was all of five years old at the time.

You don't have to use them. They are optional.

I don't precede my husband, sons or grandchildren by a "d" not because they aren't dear or darling to me, but I find referring to them that way on a forum bordering on nauseating, but that's me, we are all different.

It's the Internet. Why should we be old fogie-like and not embrace it?

I like the D thing. For me it stands for Darling.

I love the D. Softens everything.

Once you learn the acronyms, they are learnt.

can anyone shine a light on ND then please? It isn't in the FAQ and its been puzzling me ...New Daughter, Next Door, Nearly Daughter.......???

Dislike the American D, now only use it with irony!

GP can be confusing on medical threads when somone turns out to be talking about grandparents.

If you are typing numerous posts and maybe on a few forums typing out the whole word where 2 or 3 letters will do makes sense to me. Especially if its a really long thread and there are a lot of posts to get through.
If you text a lot which I do then it makes the difference between a really short text or a great long one that takes an age to scroll and read .

Sorry , but I don't like them either ! I'm the old fogie that will continue use long hand but still happy to read forums .Each to their own !
ND - nearly dead ?

Depends on the thread. I think ND is meant to be "nice daughter" as opposed to "estranged daughter," but I am happy to be corrected.

It might be Naughty daughter

I have never seen ND! Got to be a typo.

Ah! DN (round that way) would be darling niece.

I've seen it on a thread about estranged family members- the ND was the one who wasn't estranged.

Oh! 'Now daughter' perhaps. Or 'near daughter'? (Opposite of estranged)

I've seen it on the estranged threads ... I just couldn't work it out but maybe nice daughter? I'll ask next time

I think there were posts at one time about "nice daughter" and "nasty daughter" so it was probably one or other of those.

Crikey that's confusing then - could put a whole new slant on a conversation