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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
to be fair, the mods that posted here could have easily just locked the thread and asked the OP to start the thread again since it doesn't really even hold muster to any of the posting guidelines.
Six words, one of them an abbreviation for three more, with nothing to add like "We have tried..." "Doctors have said" "We've not gone to a fertility specialist..."
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Yep.
The path of least resistance seemed to be the assumption that the TTC abbreviation would be understood in this forum of parenting (which is why acronyms and such work well in their specific, other areas of the TFP), and that conversation would then follow. When several people in succession were left scratching their heads about the meaning of the meager OP, that's when it was pointed out how very meager it was to begin with. Had there been more to go on, we'd have been able to discuss unabated by the confusion over the abbreviation.
We definitely should be fair to the new poster, but I think fairness would also dictate that you use common language in a new setting until you're sure of the vernacular. Having no memory of ever seeing "TTC" in any forum here, let alone this parenting forum, in the 5 or so years i've been here, I can safely and positively say that "TTC" is not part of the common language- hence the confusion.
This same confusion would occur if I went into tilted living and posted "COPD pt c hx CHF c/o SOB, denies c.p.- should tx be CPAP or O2 via NRB & transport?" It's just not the right lingo for the place, that's all.
