Please tell me what this means?

Aha. I think I have found it....

First, Bugsie (and you can prove this to yourself by looking at a lot of answers in Yahoo Answers, not the questions, but the answers), there will be lots of answers where people will put in apostrophes ( ' ) or quotation marks ( " ) and other things that are not normal a-z keyboard or 1-0 numbers. Because these 'other symbols' MAY be on different places on keyboards around the whole world (which happens with Y!A Languages), the software doesn't always translate or convert it the right way.

Second, when that happens, you get a kind of 4-5-6 character explosion (much like '' that you describe. This is a 'bad software translation' of something 'normal' .

Third, looking at your 't' or 're' or 'll' line ... In English, these are the typical common things that happen in the contraction word for 'will not = won't ' , or 'they are = they're ' or 'he will = he'll' [do that, etc.] They all happen after that apostrophe ( ' ) mark in English. (Thanks for putting the 3 of them there!).

So, eureka! , I think it is an apostrophe that has not been 'translated' properly between various softwares, because of this typically English won't, they're, and he'll type thing where we use single apostrophes. The apostrophe has 'exploded' into this 4-5 character set.

I doubt even that the grandkids know this. But I had to deal with keyboards and computers for a while.

... Usually when people want to curse, they find a way around it -- which they certainly have in Y!A. For example, one English person I read recently, complained that '***' wasn't allowed as a word. His answer using '***' (or 'f^g' -- let's see if it happens here) was deleted automatically by American software programmers. But in British English, '***' simply can mean 'a cigarette' .. nothing about sexual orientations. Other people in Y!A will type things like 'b$*ch' for the word for a female dog (which isn't cursing either when you USE it about a female dog -- not in my mind anyway).

So I think it's a computer error in short. You won't have to resort to the grandkids if my informed guess is right...

I doesn't* (for 't') mean you're(for 're') incapable of real love or that you'll (for 'll')never.

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