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Original poster

<<Psst>> Tech ! Over here ! I have figured out a flaw with your strike out doo-dah

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NDPIsProbablyGoingToHell · 17/09/2007 18:10

it won't work on words with apostrophes

it won't work, see ?

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Piggy · 17/09/2007 18:12

Maybe you have to treat the first and second bits as separate words?

won't

Piggy · 17/09/2007 18:13

Oooh, that worked.

Original poster
NDPIsProbablyGoingToHell · 17/09/2007 18:13

i tried it like that but I kept getting

won't

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Original poster
NDPIsProbablyGoingToHell · 17/09/2007 18:14

so don't include the ' in the strikeout?

OP posts:
Jas · 17/09/2007 18:14

won't

Jas · 17/09/2007 18:15

Yes. It goes inbetween your two "words"

Piggy · 17/09/2007 18:16

dash dash won dash dash ' dash dash t dash dash

Original poster
NDPIsProbablyGoingToHell · 17/09/2007 18:17

Blimey, who can be arsed bothered with all that pallaver ?

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Piggy · 17/09/2007 18:18

exactamondo. total pita.

burstingbug · 17/09/2007 18:19

not yet used the strike out yet
Have now

looneytune · 19/09/2007 17:11

i just came to this section to say the same thing about it being a PITA to do the apostrophe words - you beat me

TheQueenOfQuotes · 20/09/2007 13:34

oooo I hadn't realised that was now an option - just kept seeing lots of words with strike throughs and wondered what was going on

tutter · 20/09/2007 13:35

i do it loads just to annoy

TheQueenOfQuotes · 20/09/2007 13:36

it's rubbish great

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Tech · 20/09/2007 13:57

Al the struck out apostrophe stuff should have been working since yesterday I tink. So don't get on my case you band of loons.

I'm afraid the struck out emoticons is a no-go for now. It's not impossible though and we'll maybe have a look at it in the next round of talk improvements.

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