Anonymous
Post 01/15/2018 22:53     Subject: Re:Embarrassing truth: totally thought a common abbreviation on here meant something else until now.
I thought DP was down poster meaning from down the thread which kinda makes sense
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2018 22:22     Subject: Embarrassing truth: totally thought a common abbreviation on here meant something else until now.
Anonymous wrote:We need a reference page. I wouldn’t have known UMC. I remember googling “bump” years ago because I had no idea why people would reply with that single word. Finally I asked a close friend and she explained.


http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/2750.page
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2018 20:57     Subject: Embarrassing truth: totally thought a common abbreviation on here meant something else until now.
I thought that DP stood for Democratic Poster because I kept seeing that acronym in the Politics forum.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2018 18:51     Subject: Embarrassing truth: totally thought a common abbreviation on here meant something else until now.
Anonymous wrote:The one that confused me for ages was AP - to mean (I think!) affair partner. I thought AP was au pair - which it is in the nanny forum. But I couldn’t understand why it seemed so common to have an affair with your au pair!


I had never heard this term until I got to DCUM.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2018 18:50     Subject: Embarrassing truth: totally thought a common abbreviation on here meant something else until now.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What does DP mean? I know OP, PP, NP (original, previous, new poster).


Different Poster/Double Penatration. Depends on the context.

I think I was the first to use DP.
In the beginning I said: -DP (Different Poster)

I now sometimes say:
-SP (same poster) if I'm adding on to a previous comment. God forbid anyone should think I would be a sock puppet.


I had to google sock puppet the other day. I've seen it referenced so many times but had no clue!

Anonymous
Post 01/15/2018 18:34     Subject: Embarrassing truth: totally thought a common abbreviation on here meant something else until now.
Context is everything, and it’s forum specific. And, hell, can be thread specific. I think it’s fun to decode.

YMMV.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2018 18:28     Subject: Embarrassing truth: totally thought a common abbreviation on here meant something else until now.
The one that confused me for ages was AP - to mean (I think!) affair partner. I thought AP was au pair - which it is in the nanny forum. But I couldn’t understand why it seemed so common to have an affair with your au pair!