<p>Well I'm pretty sure they refer to "daughter" and "son." But seriously, coming from a teenager, I find it pointless and even more complicated to use abbreviations for words that can easily be spelled out. For things like lol or ftw, yes I understand that it is easier to abbreviate. I just find using S and D and DS and whatnot to create more confusion than necessary. I simply want to know what your intentions are, it's always made me curious :)</p>
<p>We’re just trying to save wear and tear on our old tired fingers by abbreviating these commonly used and intuitively obvious words.</p>
<p>Hahaha gotcha 
I was hoping it wasn’t a midlife crisis thing.</p>
<p>And congratulations on being a UCSD/UCLA parent! You should be very proud, if you aren’t already :D</p>
<p>I understand D for daughter…but son is only 2 more letters than S haha.</p>
<p>It’s efficient. If you have to type 1 instead of 3.</p>
<p>arthritis of the fingers; less typing, less arthritis…lol</p>
<p>I don’t mind using D or S; but using DS gets me. I always think of a hermaphrodite.
Some use DD. I think of a girl named Diane Davis(as an example) or a busty female.</p>
<p>For athritis fingers, motion is lotion. So the more you type, the better it feels.</p>
<p>It’s usually a stand-in for their names. D said this. S did that. </p>
<p>I’ll stop using these abbreviations the same day teenagers stop writing lol, ur, and u.</p>
<p>Can someone explain what DS and DD are? I never know what they stand for. Coureur, stop making hasty generalizations about teenagers.</p>
<p>Because it’s faster and the cool people use those abbreviations. :)</p>
<p>First D=dear. I don’t mind son but daughter is a beotch!(Especially on my TabletPC)</p>
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<p>DS = Darling Son. DD = Darling Daughter. And I’ll stop making hasty generalizations about teenagers the same day teenagers stop making hasty generalizations about parents.</p>
<p>^^agreed!!!</p>
<p>Are you sure that D stands for “dear”, I think it stands for “darn” (or worse) at least half the time!</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, I used to write mathson when I was just talking about the older one, but now I usually say S1 and S2.</p>
<p>The “DH,” “DD,” “DS” business is what really gets me.</p>
<p>(And, ha, I just realized that I’ve not yet seen the acronym “DW” on here)</p>
<p>Haha mathmom 
Thanks for your help everyone!</p>
<p>I don’t think anybody was asking for a fight, coureur. Would you really say that to a stranger’s face?</p>
<p>You youngsters have to understand that the DS and DD online abbreviations have been around for as long as you have been alive. On older online services with audio modem connections, it was possible to have modem latency mess up display of text. Abbreviations were good. See </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/52585-abbreviation-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/52585-abbreviation-thread.html</a> </p>
<p>(a sticky thread on this very forum–fancy that) for much more.</p>
<p>Question for Northstarmom:</p>
<p>After an interview with a local alum, is it customary for the student to send a thank you note? We don’t have an actual address for the interviewer, only an email address.</p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p>I could use No.1 boy and No.2 boy, but I would sound like a colonial poobah talking about the servants. (I read somewhere that British aristocrats called their servants who succeeded one another in the same position by the same name no matter what their real name was to save having to learn their real name).</p>