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` instead of '

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Shens for the Brits, however I will agree on the MS Word autocorrect feature being a pain in the arse for single and double quotes.
 
I don't think it's a regional setting. I have ' on my quote key, and ` is way over with the ~. Don't think I've ever used ` before this post.
 
speg said:
I don't think it's a regional setting. I have ' on my quote key, and ` is way over with the ~. Don't think I've ever used ` before this post.
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Yeah, that`s what I don`t get. It`s definitely people with English keyboards doing this (Canadian/British girls, however small a minority). Is it to grab people`s attention more?
 
TridenT said:
Yeah... It took me a little too. I was like, "Uh... I don't see the problem but why are you using that wei...ooohhhhh"

` vs '?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_%28symbol)

It's called a prime and it should not be used in place of a proper '. It's for fucking equations.
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It's called a grave accent, tard.

Also, the opposing accent mark is called the acute accent, and it's different from the prime.

Apostrophe: '
Grave accent: `
Acute accent: ´
Prime: ′
 
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I like how AT manages to analyze every meaningless aspect of life.

It would definitely be a treat to be in a huge room full of AT'ers. A few would end up in the hospital, a few would be in a tight-knit group, the rest would just be shunned by the rest of AT, and then there would be some people just walking around, not talking to anyone.
 
I use a lot of back-ticks when on a ksh or bash... but I don't use them in plain english. Also, my pinkie finger can reach my back-tick key with my hands in the "home" position ...
 
om3gawave said:
I like how AT manages to analyze every meaningless aspect of life.

It would definitely be a treat to be in a huge room full of AT'ers. A few would end up in the hospital, a few would be in a tight-knit group, the rest would just be shunned by the rest of AT, and then there would be some people just walking around, not talking to anyone.
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Don't forget ... there's also gonna be a creepy guy sitting on the floor looking at some fat chick's cankles ... He knows how to get you a free ipod though 🙂
 
om3gawave said:
I like how AT manages to analyze every meaningless aspect of life.

It would definitely be a treat to be in a huge room full of AT'ers. A few would end up in the hospital, a few would be in a tight-knit group, the rest would just be shunned by the rest of AT, and then there would be some people just walking around, not talking to anyone.
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If you use a grave accent instead of an apostrophe, you should be in the shunned group. It's that bad, though perhaps not as bad as misusing an apostrophe to indicate plural's.
 
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