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Re:WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users acc... by resoluteteeth on Saturday May 08, 2021 @07:31AM (#27086147)
> The contraction doesn't make sense as you are omitting one character to replace it with another.

Are you saying that it's pointless to replace the w with an apostrophe because the number of characters doesn't change? If so, this is not how contractions work. The point isn't to reduce the number of characters in writing, the point is to indicate in writing where letters have been omitted in the spoken pronunciation of the contraction.

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Re:WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users acc... by StavrosK on Saturday May 08, 2021 @07:37AM (#27086180)
> Are you saying that it's pointless to replace the w with an apostrophe because the number of characters doesn't change?

That is something very common, isnot it?

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Re:WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users acc... by u801e on Saturday May 08, 2021 @04:01PM (#27090204)
Another common thing to do is replace the characters with something different:

  should have
  should've
  should of
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Re:WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users acc... by celticninja on Saturday May 08, 2021 @09:48AM (#27087087)
As I said elsewhere when I said convey accent, I meant pronunciation. So in that situation I understand it's use, I just hadn't heard it pronounced like that before.
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