So, I received a Facebook message that looks like this:
I’m not going to repost this thing because it looks perfectly fine to me. What’s the catch?
Apparently the problem is that word “Whats” in the description. It should be “What’s.”
The -gry of the new generation.
I think it is that there is no apostrophe in “Whats”.
That’s all I could find.
Neat-o my first simul-post.
I believe there should be an apostrophe in “whats”. At least there’s one thing wrong.
No question mark either.
wow two simul-posts in a row. I think the universe just blew it’s head off.
With what?
I’ve seen incantations where the OOO line was actually 000, or where the CCC line was COC.
I believe that it would have to be a 1920s style “death ray”.
Could that also be a colon?
Na. That would be a bummer.
Your pun stinks.
I’ve noticed two titles with this, “Whats wrong here” and “What’s wrong here?”
So, if there has been an original post with correct grammar in the title, then the answer is simple. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it.
The plot is predictable and the vocabulary is limited.
The 'i’s are missing their tittles.
The “I” s are lowercase "L"s, apparently.
So is this some sad reflection on how a college education doesn’t prepare us to be able to tell the difference between an I and a l?
No, they’re not. They’re upper-case 'I’s, right and proper, ‘I’ as in “Igloo”, though rendered without horizontal bars in the SDMB font. (Ironically, this does become clear if you copy the message and prepare to post it to the SDMB, since, at least on my computer, the edit box for posts uses a font where upper-case ‘I’ has horizontal bars)
I think all that’s going on here, all that was ever meant to be going on here, is that it’s just a ploy to sneakily get people to re-post this message in the hopes of making the (non-existent) error obvious, like the stupid chain messages that dominate YouTube (and, to my recollection, at least once dominated Facebook) but more devious about it.
But the "I"s in the text quoted above are actual letter "i"s. I checked.
Everyone seems to have missed the part that pretty much tells you the answer:
(Although again, you could argue that there should be a question mark. And a capital letter.)