Sometimes in the kitchen forum I'm not sure if DW is dishwasher or dear wife!

Hahaha Chispa!!! I've never liked the "D" acronyms. For some reason it just seems so weird to me. In real life, I'd never say, dear husband, dear sister, etc. LOL

I have noticed that the implied "dear" in DH, DW, DS etc. is often not very heartfelt. It has a dismissive tone.

But it has become the "lingua franca" FWIW, IIRC.

Also, some people may not know RH, BM, SW, PB, etc.

I'll start another thread....

If you read more than one sentence, the acronyms are easy to figure out. After "SIL" is written, there will be a "he" or a "she" following soon.

I do agree aout the "Dear" part.

Dh or Dw don't bother me a bit. It made me laugh the first time dh signed a note to me as 'dh'. It told me that he listens to me when I talk about all of you. I'll send him one once in a while signed dw. But maybe we're just dorks. lol!

I'll agree with the DH so much that I pretty much refuse to use it. I'll just type out husband. I don't know why out of all the things to rub me the wrong way, it is referring to my husband as Dear...haha

i also haven't been able to jump on the dh, ds, etc bandwagon--- but i have fully embraced lol, even tho it's no longer 'cool'!

I suppose it depends on the way your mind works. As a young wife when message boards were relatively new to me, I thought the D was for dumb. An affectionate dumb of course but I thought it fit. Granted, the D could stand for many things, depending on your mood...

lol is no longer cool?! When did that happen? What am I suppose to use now? Out of the loop again, as always.

And here I though that D stood for D@MN. Oh well.

And here I thought DH was darling husband...well maybe yours is dear, but mine is darling....
;)

I thought you guyses KNEW that DH DOES mean "Darling-Husband" in my case....;-)
(one just assumes...)

"Dashing" would also apply....maybe even "Doting".....

Faron

too funny faron (i'd say lol, but i never got comfortable using that one - glad it's not fashionable anymore - wish someone had told me).

Using DH, DD and so on comes really naturally to me and, like others have said, have to stop myself from using it in emails to friends, etc. I do find it hard to interpret many of the 4 or 5 letter acronyms and find myself giving up on a thread if I can't. Just the way my mind works - or doesn't work.

I'm a so-so MLB fan, so "DH" has its own meaning there too!

The attached link is pretty good....wait for it...."IMO"!!!!

Some pretty funny ones on there!
I'm just "SMDH"...

Faron

Here is a link that might be useful: Internet slang stuff...