O/T:- Apostrophes becoming question marks.

[Old_pie]

It being originated in Australia is a new one on me. It's been bugging me over the past decade or more... an increasingly common propensity among US women to end sentences with a whiney rising inflection that seems to dare the listener to disagree.

Bugged me when I lived down under for 10 yrs in the 1970s; kept thinking I was being asked a question. I managed to avoid the habit along with sheilas, fair dinkum and a few others. Yes, I was in a city, not the outback.

[Elite_Pie]

There seems to be a new language evolving for the young generation these days. Previously, if you were asked a question and the answer was in the affirmative you would simply say "yes". Now the answer is increasingly "oh, 100% bro, 100%."

It also seems that the word 'like' will soon become the most common word in the English language. "It was like, I asked her what she thought like, and she agreed like".

Like what FFS?

[magpie_mania]

There seems to be a new language evolving for the young generation these days. Previously, if you were asked a question and the answer was in the affirmative you would simply say "yes". Now the answer is increasingly "oh, 100% bro, 100%."

It also seems that the word 'like' will soon become the most common word in the English language. "It was like, I asked her what she thought like, and she agreed like".

Like what FFS?

I like it.

No idea where that has come from. On a par with starting sentences answering questions with, ?So?.

[MAD_MAGPIE]

I'm sure we've all seen it a lot on here, but does anyone know why apostrophes often appear as question marks? It's a fairly recent thing that is becoming very annoying. It's not just this board, it happens all over the MAD network. When I post on Chrome on my old desktop it's not a problem,but.......

It's very annoying and something that has happened when I post usually from an iPhone and not a laptop. This message is posted using a laptop and it's working fine. It would be good to get rid of the glitch.