In Reply to: Re: Good points, Farmer posted by Farmer on January 07, 2004 at 08:03:05:
I've noticed something a bit odd in many of your posts that I've been meaning to ask you about.
Wherever you have a contraction such as: they're, you are not using the apostraphe (') but instead use the grov symbol (`). I guess for sighted folks, it doesn't have a great deal of visual difference, but when my screen-reader software reads words that contain a ` instead of an ' it comes out pretty strange. For example, don`t is pronunced "don-grov-tee" which is a bit distracting for me. Does your keyboard not have an apostraphe key? I would think that using it would be easier than reaching all the way up to press the ` key way over in the upper left-hand corner of the keyboard. Thanks!