<p>@demorrin, you wrote:
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<p>Hmm, a quick glance at some of your posts on this forum include the following:</p>
<p>“Last year 5 on lang Apush 4 Ap gov 4 Lit 5” No laziness there, huh?</p>
<p>IB</p>
<p>ED</p>
<p>idk</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>CS</p>
<p>ACT</p>
<p>…and many, many college name abbrevations.</p>
<p>B-) </p>
<p><my main="" point="" about="" the="" abbreviations="" is="" that="" it’s="" dehumanizing="" and="" rude="" to="" actual="" kids="" they="" are="" referring="" to.="" i="" wouldn’t="" like="" be="" called="" “s1”="" what="" am="" i,="" a="" robot="" or="" science="" experiment?=""></my></p>
<p>No, it’s not rude. It’s an attempt to protect your privacy. The experiment is over on the chances forum where kids routinely give out enough personal information that they could be found with a minimum of Internet search skills. </p>
<p>^Yes, and we get MANY, MANY requests every day from kids who want their posts edited or deleted. So it’s the parents who are thinking ahead and the kids who can be clueless.</p>
<p>S1, S2, D1, etc. don’t bother me nearly as much as the poster who always refers to his DD as “spawn.”</p>
<p>Actually, it’s extremely clear that “Spawn” is an endearment, and the poster who calls his D by that name does so with humor and love. Anything but demeaning. </p>
<p>(And, yes, I am too lazy to spell out “daughter” when “D” will do. 
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I get that. However it still rankles me. There are many other instances of words used affectionately that I have a problem with.</p>
<p>What about D15? It seems pretty common on College Confidential, and while I know it does happen, not everyone has 15+ daughters…</p>
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Daughter of the class of 2015.</p>