Posted on 11/03/2015 3:15:12 AM PST by Maceman
Direct posting using contractions hasn’t been a problem. The issue appears to only result from doing a copy-and-paste of text. You don’t need to avoid contractions or “quotations” in what you’re typing.
Negative. Even when typed directly, the contractions come out with the strange characters. viz. It’s flawed.
The above previews correctly but when the thread is re-entered, we have the glitch.
Let’s see.
I had taken to using ' “ and ” for the apostrophe and double quotes when I was at a keyboard. Too much of a hassle using using my phone.
Your post’s contractions are looking OK to me. Are you still seeing the strange characters?
To avoid that smartass answer, the problem should have said “solve for x.”
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Ok now. I went back to that previous test post and it looks good there too. But that day the directly typed apostrophes had that euro sign thingie going on when the thread was refreshed.
Godspeed, FR boffins!
You may have seen a temporary glitch as JimRob was working on the issue. Sometimes an incorrect attempt at a fix can actually make the situation worse for a bit.
For centuries, parents have placed children to sleep on their stomach. You could say that children evolved sleeping on their stomach. Now we are seeing multiple problems from children who are back sleepers. It used to be that parenting books listed the ability to crawl at six months as an important developmental milestone, now it is not even mentioned. I see infants everywhere with the flat back head from back sleeping, how do we know what the long term effect of that will be on brain development?
Kids need to manipulate their environments to understand spatial concepts. They usually learn not by being told, but by doing.
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Tell that to the idiot parents of today who follow their kids around telling them “Be careful!” and telling them “Good job!” for the slightest accomplishment.
Can’t argue with your comment, except to say that the men are at fault, as well. More of the responsibility is on the women, but men share some blame.
Their thumbs are fine though.
You referenced the ghetto class as primarily possessing these pathologies, and that is accurate and correct.
Another way to look at this is issue is “it is simply one more problem that can easily be fixed with white taxpayer’s money.”
Sounds like your students are victims of Mexican cultural norms.
You know, the resistance, laziness, indolence, etc.
Sad truth: even THEY tell Mexican jokes.
When I lived in LA, the Mexicans told the best Mexican jokes, and the blacks told the best black jokes. It was fun. Nothing sad about it.
I guess I think it’s sad because to the best of my knowledge white people don’t tell white jokes. Our culture is something we’re proud of. At least, it is for me. The only exception I can think of is specific nationality jokes, like the English used to tell about the Irish, or those old Polish jokes left over from WWII.
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