Off Topic Vocabulary check: DD

[estamey21]

Hi. I'm brand new to this forum. I am a retired gymnast and current gymnastics coach.

My (possibly stupid) question: What does "DD" mean?

This acronym is hard to search on Google, but a cursory search returns "darling daughter." Is this correct? What is the difference between saying "my DD" and "my daughter"?

 

[skschlag]

No difference. Some people use it as a shortcut. I prefer to just type things out as too many acronyms and "text talk" can make things harder to read.

 

[estamey21]

No difference. Some people use it as a shortcut. I prefer to just type things out as too many acronyms and "text talk" can make things harder to read.

Thank you for enlightening me!

For what it's worth (FWIW), I believe that acronyms are needlessly exclusionary. I will die on this anthill!

 

[Janneke]

This might help:

Off Topic - Commonly Used Abbreviations / Acronyms (from everywhere... ChalkBucket / gymnastics / social media / etc)

Here is a quote from one of our great new members... Fourth reason, learning what DD, JO, FX , WAG, etc. stand for takes time and a little lurking is great to just learn the terminology (although a glossary with commonly used abbreviations would be so helpful!). The above is from the...

chalkbucket.com

 

[JBS]

@Janneke Totally forgot about that... good call!

 

[estamey21]

This might help:

Off Topic - Commonly Used Abbreviations / Acronyms (from everywhere... ChalkBucket / gymnastics / social media / etc)

Here is a quote from one of our great new members... Fourth reason, learning what DD, JO, FX , WAG, etc. stand for takes time and a little lurking is great to just learn the terminology (although a glossary with commonly used abbreviations would be so helpful!). The above is from the...

chalkbucket.com

Amazing! Thanks for pointing me to this resource

 

[ProudGymnast]

Understandable question. When I first read a forum here I thought DD was a name, and then further along in the thread thought it was a funny coincidence that another persons daughter was named/nicknamed dee-dee. And then eventually I realized, no, not everyones daughter is named DD. Well, the more you know.

 

[Janneke]

@Janneke Totally forgot about that... good call!

I asked for it in the first place, so definitely remembered it

 

[skschlag]

This might help:

Off Topic - Commonly Used Abbreviations / Acronyms (from everywhere... ChalkBucket / gymnastics / social media / etc)

Here is a quote from one of our great new members... Fourth reason, learning what DD, JO, FX , WAG, etc. stand for takes time and a little lurking is great to just learn the terminology (although a glossary with commonly used abbreviations would be so helpful!). The above is from the...

chalkbucket.com

Thanks! I knew we had this but wasn't sure where

 

[JPC13]

I’ve always assumed it means “dear daughter”. You see that sort of thing on Reddit — wives talking about “DH” and husbands talking about “DW”.