It's just about apostrophes. I've nothing to say. I'm just wondering where they've gone.

[rzemanfl]

Mine worked.

[LisaM]

1. Maybe these folks can help you....

http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/

[ProudLib72]

2. Dont use contractions

Use your formal tone, and you wont have any problem whatsoever!

[rzemanfl]

5. I don't have a problem. For those who do, what about possessives? n/t

[ProudLib72]

8. Add the phrase "belonging to" between the thing possessed and its possessor

The hat belonging to Sheila is pretty.

[rzemanfl]

23. How about "gots?"

Sheila gots a pretty hat.

[ProudLib72]

24. You can say that, but it is a regional dialect

Where I live, we say, "Sheila done has as pretty hat".

[Loki Liesmith]

29. Ugh let's kill off the genitive case completely then

It's all we have left of case endings in English. Don't let it die!

[NightWatcher]

3. Im typing on iPhone and iPad and they often dont show up even when I type them.

Damnit, see what I mean

[Bleacher Creature]

12. I had the same problem. Here's what worked for me.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1256&pid=13181

[NightWatcher]

13. Well I'll be...

Looks like we've found a fix. Thanks.

[Croney]

19. I'm testing this fix now.

Hoping it's good... yes! Thank you!

[tanyev]

4. Mine dont work when I post from my tabletin the subject line only.

First noticed it after I installed the new system update, but I don’t know if that’s the reason.

Hey, dashes don’t work either! I typed a dash in between the words tablet and in.

[rzemanfl]

6. If you have an iPad you can go back to the old keyboard. n/t

[dumbcat]

7. I haven't tried yet

Now I have, from my iPad. Isn't it working? I haven't upgraded to the new iOS yet.

[rzemanfl]

16. There is a way to keep the old keyboard with the new upgrade. I googled it for someone. n/t

Last edited Mon Oct 16, 2017, 08:56 PM - Edit history (1)

[DBoon]

9. Frank Zappa had an opinion on this

"Well I told 'em right then", Fido said
"It should be easy to see
"The crux of the biscuit
is the apostrophe"
Well you know, the man that was talking to the dog
looked at the dog, and he said
Sort of staring in disbelief
"You can't say that"
he said
"It doesn't, and you can't, I won't, and it don't
it hasn't, it isn't, it even ain't, and it shouldn't
it couldn't"

[unblock]

10. my wont is not to use apostrophes.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

11. Dont know... its very strange indeed, but I wouldnt worry about it.

[NotASurfer]

14. Heres a strange...

Here’s a strange...

Type out in the message text. Copy. Go back to the subject and paste. It’s in the text, AWOL in the subject

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Depending on what website I copy things from, the apostrophes remain or are dropped.

Perhaps it's related to the ASCII translation table that is being used here.

I noticed a change a couple of months ago, around the same time when HTML tags were added back.

Note: For me, this seems to only affect the Title and not the Message text.

[ProudLib72]

17. Here is a review of a book you might be interested in

Perhaps we can get the DU admin to buy an electronic version and make a sticky of it.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2015/dec/04/at-last-a-book-that-tells-you-exactly-where-to-stick-your-apostrophe

Simon Griffin, a Leeds-based designer, had no such qualms over the title of his new book, Fucking Apostrophes. (Subtitle: “A guide to where you can stick them.”) He says: “It’s something I wrote for the many designers I work with who are: a) incredibly bad at using apostrophes; b) incredibly good at using swearwords.”

So the title is a catchphrase, and one that I suspect may be heard ringing around many an office. As Griffin says, apostrophes can be confusing and exasperating: “Just look at King’s Cross, which is written both with and without a fucking apostrophe; or Waterstones, which dropped its fucking apostrophe; or Hear’say [sic], who used a fucking apostrophe to make them look groovy.”

[TexasProgresive]

18. They work on my MAC using Sea Monkey (Mozilla) and Safari, but not my iPhone.

[hunter]

20. I write English in ASCII. Always have, always will. Apple's "smart" punctuation is hell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

Should I want more there's LaTeX

[steve2470]

21. Only straight apostrophes and quotation marks work in titles

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1256&pid=13177

Make7 (7,397 posts)
18. Only straight apostrophes and quotation marks work in titles.

If your device can't produce them, you can use html entities to replace them in titles.

Replace apostrophes with & a p o s ; (remove spaces)
Replace quotes with & q u o t ; (remove spaces)

[NotASurfer]

22. Raptured up in the Apostrophelypse n/t

[rzemanfl]

25. You win the thread. n/t

[RKP5637]

26. Here are some extras! ''''''''''''' n/t

[applegrove]

27. Sometimes my keyboard time's into a French one and the apostrophes

turn into accented "e"s. Don't know why. Then it changes back for no reason and the apostrophes work again. Question mark is affected too.

[scarletwoman]

28. Here's what I found for a fix:

Go ahead and post, then take a look at it. If your subject line is missing apostrophes and/or quotation marks, click on edit, re-type it, then re-post. This time the missing punctuation marks should show up.