The grave accent is not an apostrophe [warning: punctuation content]

[BassyBill]

Maybe that sign is to let you know 'This is the Smith's house'?

Or even the Smiths' house?

EDIT Beaten to it.

 

[Jimmy Bones]

I accidentally use it from time to time when trying to type a tilde.

 

[superfunk47]

Or even the Smiths' house?

EDIT Beaten to it.

IBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMOD!

I've never won anything in my life! Where's a Sally Field smiley when you need one?


...I'm getting banned, aren't I?

 

[sloasdaylight]

IBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMOD!

I've never won anything in my life! Where's a Sally Field smiley when you need one?


...I'm getting banned, aren't I?

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[BassyBill]

IBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMODIBEATAMOD!

I've never won anything in my life! Where's a Sally Field smiley when you need one?


...I'm getting banned, aren't I?

Nice to see I made somebody's day.

 

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

Maybe that sign is to let you know 'This is the Smith's house'?

Ah, where lives the village smithie.

 

[Kosko]

I wrote a program that parsers and imports data into a database from a CSV file (comma seperated values). One of the things I had to scrub for was different apostrophes, little angled ones and straight up and down ones. It was annoying.

 

[hbarcat]

The grave accent is not an apostrophe


Perhaps not.


But an Umlaut is just two periods that decided to meet above a vowel.

 

[Chunk-O-Funk]

The grave accent is not an apostrophe!

Correct: I haven't had enough coffee today.
Incorrect: I haven`t had enough coffee today.

Thank you.

[/end punctuation rant]

Thank God you straighten that out for us.
What's next? "Tilde, not just a fancy hyphen!"



Honestly, though. I can't say I've ever seen somebody make that mistake.

 

[jdieh1]

Thank God you straighten that out for us.
What's next? "Tilde, not just a fancy hyphen!"



Honestly, though. I can't say I've ever seen somebody make that mistake.

It's rare, but I've seen it.

Honestly, I have no idea how you can make the mistake of using one incorrectly when it is so far away from everything else