Abbreviations...check this out

BookAddict
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:27:52 +0000

>>I always thought it was used more literally because they were bumping the post up from the bottom.<<

You are very likely correct. BUMP = Bring Up My Post is almost certainly a bogus acronym devised after the fact.



Ah. I kind of guessed that it was a backronym, since BUMP as “bring up my post” just doesn’t usually make grammatical sense when people use it. But I still feel stupid, because apparently the “bring up my post” meaning is at least somewhat well-known, and I’d never heard of it!



Also I’m annoyed by “D” and “S” and “DS” and “DD” because they’re only used on CC, never ever seen them anywhere else.



I’ve seen them elsewhere, though not very frequently. I’ve seen DH more, though still not that much.

(Oh, and one of my dad’s nicknames for me is DD )