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Can someone tell me why it is impossible to use the word "can't" in this forum? When I use it, it always ends up posted as "can't". When I return to edit it, it goes back to "can't". Is there something I can turn off so that I can use the word without the system turning it into the contraction of "cannot"?

See what I mean? I can't even use it in the subject heading. I'm talking about "can't" without the apostrophe.

I don't know. But I do know that when I type "naïve" that the board inserts diaeresis for me. Which I find incredibly gratifying. For some reason, or another.

I'm afraid that the c-a-n-t of this board militates against certain otherwise perfectly-acceptable homonymic expressions.

Coggins7 wrote:See what I mean? I can't even use it in the subject heading. I'm talking about "can't" without the apostrophe.

It's probably Shades the "grammatical Nazi" at work. (Just joking, Shades.) For example, write naïve, and it comes up as

naïve

Try n-a-i-v-e. (I wrote the "i" in lower case, but it appeared in upper case, probably because of the absent inflection)

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/naïve


Test: can't

You're right, too. But you're isn't corrected.

It's a free speech board, but it's not a free-spelling board, not entirely anyway. Shades must have "pet spelling annoyances".

Coggins7 wrote:Can someone tell me why it is impossible to use the word "can't" in this forum? When I use it, it always ends up posted as "can't". When I return to edit it, it goes back to "can't".

That's because you're the only person who ever uses the word c-a-n-t (the noun). Lots of people are too lazy to insert an apostrophe into the contraction of "cannot," so it was a question of pleasing the one vs. pleasing the many. The greatest good for the greatest number, if you will.

Forgive me, but I think it's well worth the tradeoff of having your precious c-a-n-t appear incorrectly on those rare occasions when you use it rather than be driven completely bats*** insane by the seeing the word "can't" without an apostrophe on an hourly basis.

Is there something I can turn off so that I can use the word without the system turning it into the contraction of "cannot"?

Nope. You're stuck. Pick another word.

Dr. Shades wrote:Nope. You're stuck. Pick another word.

Shades is will always beed the gerhammer Kang. Its is his's calling.

Infymus wrote:Shades is will always beed the gerhammer Kang. Its is his's calling.

Must. . . resisit. . . murderous. . . impulses. . .

Dr. Shades wrote:

Infymus wrote:Shades is will always beed the gerhammer Kang. Its is his's calling.

Must. . . resisit. . . murderous. . . impulses. . .

LOL

I tend to use the wrong spelling of words. I used to just type out t-h-r-u for lack of desire to spell through properly.
Shade fixed it somehow. Now whenever I spell it improperly, its automaticly spelled through.