Using , instead of '

[Craig321]

I've seen a few people using , instead of '. For example:

It,s
I,m

You get the idea...

I have only come across 4 or 5 people that do this, and they have all been online friends or online posts. I have never seen it written.

I did ask someone a while back why they were using , instead of '. They said they had been taught like that.

Where does this come from? Is it taught like this in some cases?

 

[Craig321]

Android phone keyboard typos.

Or iPhone/iPad. Just as easy.

No such thing as these ~8 years ago, especially not ones that connect to PC only online games!

I think it's rather strange that a thread has been made over something so trivial :/.

I don't care how trivial it is, I'm interested in why more than one person who aren't connected in any way use , instead of '.

 

[Craig321]

Sigh, I like how everyone is automatically assuming they're stupid. Good old OcUK .

Must be a European thing. Suppose it could be a mapping thing as Theophany said.

 

[Craig321]

Its like people using ect instead of etc. Just bad teaching.

That is just plain not knowing how to spell though.

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet. (Don't fancy reading 3 pages)

But likely when it's parsed through MySQL databases they're stripping possibly harmful characters. eg. " ' < > /

They replace them with commas and they should be de-stripped when echoed out.

That's my assumption.

Usually if that's the case it'll be "it\'s", but then that depends on how they've implemented it and what else they have done to the string. This isn't the case though as the people I have spoken to that use "it,s" have often been on MSN, online games, or on forums where ' isn't stripped.

And it's one page, not three. Change your options to show 80 posts per page like a real man

 

[Craig321]

I've never had troubles with , or ' but really detest colons and semi-colons and the 'proper' use of apostrophes...oh wise grammar nazi's of OCUK provide me with a guide to make up for the failings of north east england schooling!

It's not that they have troubles or don't know where to use a comma or apostrophe, it's that they completely replace an apostrophe with a comma in every instance.