AIBU re DDS

No, yggdrasil , you are not.

I'm used to it now but I found it very odd when I first joined Gransnet.

Yes, the 'D' is totally unnecessary and in some cases inappropriate.

I agree. I spend more time trying to work out what the initials stand for than reading the text. Still cannot work out MIV

But the D can be interpreted in several ways.
Darling
Dear
Dratted
Damned
Dreadful
That’s the fun, working out the meaning from the context.

The only one which I find confusing is SiL.
It’s not always obvious whether it means sister-in-law or son-in-law.

I give up if they're too complicated.

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

So, what, if anything does, the "DDS" in the thread title mean"?

DDs?

Darling daughters?

Darned, Dratted, Subscript?

Yeah. Any of those. I suppose.

Yggdrasil, no you are not the only one who find these initials annoying and confusing.

Try this: ”AIBU to think that my DBH, my DSD and her DW should visit their DM, DGM, WGM and my MiL more often IYCWIM?

You would just give up!

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.

Don’t you mean your DTH on whenIwas

Lazy stuff why not go the whole hog
Tlk 2morrow if not l8er 2 nite

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.

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!

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.

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!

Took me ages to work out. I was never on Mumsnet so was clueless.

Not a huge fan myself but it's NOMB really.

It's just plain laziness! Once you've typed the whole words once it's acceptable to abbreviate thereafter, though.

LOL