Acronyms on Board

There is a subset of acronyms that is widely used by people who cruise 
and write about it, especially on the travel discussion boards. I think my 
little tweet with some examples demonstrates the growing 
disconnect between the way we write online and the way we talk. 

What do all those letter combinations mean? I did a search for a good 
"decoder" and discovered a possibility at the BabyCentre . While it 
does explain DH, it seems to be more about birth related acronyms 
like HPT (home pregnancy test), MM (mother's milk) and O (ovulation).

The Acronym Finder is a long list of acronyms for desperate people. I can't be 
bothered with it.

And then, yikes, there was the NightlyNet discussion board where participants 
made fresh suggestions for acronyms like these,  "I'd like to see some non-family 
values abbreviations thrown into the mix for the broken homes. Like, "My SWW 
(stupid whore wife) is doing the milkman" "My DDS (drug-dealing son) is in 
jail again", and "My KUD (knocked-up daughter) doesn't know who the father is"."

Back to the cruising boards where the orientation is definitely toward 
happy family talk....these seem to be the acronyms most used on cruise 
discussion boards:
TA -- Travel Agent  or Trans-Atlantic
DS -- Dear Son       DD -- Dear Daughter   
DW-- Dear Wife       MIL -- Mother in law   SIL -- Son in law or Sister in law
DH --Dear Husband    FIL -- Father in law   
DIL -- Daughter in law    BIL -- brother in law
SO -- Significant Other  BF -- Boyfriend  GF -- Girlfriend
GTG - Get-To-Gether     M&G -- Meet & Greet   
OBC -- On Board Credit  PAX -- Passengers  
CD -- Cruise Director      ACD -- Assistant Cruise Director
B2B -- Back to back cruises


TTFN (ta ta for now)