Acronyms DDiL DSiL DMiL DFiL requested please

Calistemon

The last two sound like ships ?

LINK to a list of ships named HMS Daring

LINK to a list of ships named Definance or HMS Defiance

LINK to a page about a movie about a fictitious ship HMS Defiant

NB ElderlyPerson these are not acronyms just lazy abbreviations.

sodapop

NB ElderlyPerson these are not acronyms just lazy abbreviations.

Upon checking, I found that those that I have suggested are indeed not acronyms.

Also some of those in the Gransnet list are not acronyms and some could be but in practice are not always used as acronyms.

Thank you for helping me to learn.

LINK to definition of acronym

LINK to definition of initialism

ElderlyPerson

Calistemon

The last two sound like ships ?

LINK to a list of ships named HMS Daring

LINK to a list of ships named Definance or HMS Defiance

LINK to a page about a movie about a fictitious ship HMS Defiant

I was going to send you a message, EP but you're not receiving them

Callistemon
I don’t think a lot of people are getting PMs.
I think it’s another cunning plan ( said in Baldricks voice) ?

Yep, think this is quite unnecessary and go along with Monica and Lucca.

Many thanks to Calistemon for supporting this request.

Following from the post of sodapop it seems the net result of this thread and our discussion is that the page labelled as Acronyms needs to be replaced with a page labelled as Abbreviations and the word 'acronyms' removed.

I hope that GNHQ will arrange this please.

In real life does anyone call anyone dear??

I dont think GN has a policy that daughters in law should be treated as daughters, you may have seen people on the site saying that but I dont think GN have ever announced a position on it.

M0nica

Some threads make it very clear that mother and daughter are at odds for all kinds of reasons and some daughters are anything but D to their parents.

As are some husbands to their wives!

sodapop

Oh please no more abbreviations, the ones we have are annoying enough.

Totally agree

Galaxy

I dont think GN has a policy that daughters in law should be treated as daughters, you may have seen people on the site saying that but I dont think GN have ever announced a position on it.

In LINK this article there is the heading

1. Treat her as you would a daughter

ElderlyPerson

Many thanks to Calistemon for supporting this request.

Following from the post of sodapop it seems the net result of this thread and our discussion is that the page labelled as Acronyms needs to be replaced with a page labelled as Abbreviations and the word 'acronyms' removed.

I hope that GNHQ will arrange this please.

I doubt it. Actually I’d be annoyed if they did as there are other changes that have been requested myriad times to no avail.

Oh and just by the way I don’t treat my daughter in law as my daughter (I don’t have one) I treat her as a good friend.

For heaven’s sake, don’t we all have better things to think about than GN’s wretched abbreviations?

I’d never come across these Ds before I came to this site. I thought it must be a British thing.

Not as far as I’m concerned nanna. I don’t know anyone who peppers talk about offspring, grandchildren or spouses with ‘dear’ or ‘darling’. And EP wants even more of this tosh. I’m going to go down the garden and scream.

Germanshepherdsmum

Not as far as I’m concerned nanna. I don’t know anyone who peppers talk about offspring, grandchildren or spouses with ‘dear’ or ‘darling’. And EP wants even more of this tosh. I’m going to go down the garden and scream.

I Haven’t got a garden so do one for me please !

How do you address yours, EP?

I’m going to go down the garden and scream

I heard you loud and clear! ?

Glad to read that AC means Adult Child and not Autocorrect. Mind you, they can both be infuriating!

Lucca

ElderlyPerson

Many thanks to Calistemon for supporting this request.

Following from the post of sodapop it seems the net result of this thread and our discussion is that the page labelled as Acronyms needs to be replaced with a page labelled as Abbreviations and the word 'acronyms' removed.

I hope that GNHQ will arrange this please.

I doubt it. Actually I’d be annoyed if they did as there are other changes that have been requested myriad times to no avail.

There is a saying "Do not grumble away your opportunities".

So, if there are changes that you want made, you could start a new thread in the Site Stuff forum with a title such as

Could GNHQ make these changes please?

and then requests could be made and there could possibly be good results.

A positive approach often generates good results.

That has been tried various times EP

FannyCornforth

That has been tried various times EP

A variety of threads at numerous times, rather

I hate the abbreviations too. I am a bear of little brain, and get confused when I see someone talking about visiting their GP, and assume they are ill. Similarly AC and DC have me thinking of rock bands or electrical currents, and the whole Dear/Darling thing is jarring, particularly, as has been said, on posts where people say ‘My dear husband is being a pain in the neck’?. Otherwise it just seems a bit ‘surrendered’.