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Use of apostrophe in poem title

Blog Posted:11/29/2022 8:19:00 PM

I've noticed that the PS software sometimes allows and at other times prohibits use of apostrophe in poem titles. This should be fixed, allowing its use, in my view. For example, I just wrote a poem titled 'Within God's womb' which I had to wrongly title as Gods instead of God's. Annoying.

Request PS admin to look into this please.

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Anitha
Jayasankar

Date: 12/5/2022 10:34:00 PM

Seeker, got to read this as I was just giving a quick read of all the blogs... Yes, I agree with you... It's annoying sometimes when some of our poem titles look meaningless without those punctuation marks discussed below... I hope Soup rectifies this issue... God bless... ~ Ani

Valsa
George

Date: 12/1/2022 7:32:00 PM

The example you have cited, definitely needs an apostrophe. I wonder why the word 'queer' is always prohibited

Constance
La France

Date: 12/1/2022 4:22:00 AM

Seeker, agree very annoying, blessings

Hilo
Poet

Date: 11/30/2022 6:58:00 PM

My newest poem title had its posted characters assassinated, the carnage survivors were Aa to Zz 1 to Infinity - , Eureka's;: I'm clueless as to its reasoning why???

Terry
Flood

Date: 11/30/2022 2:56:00 PM

If you want to see ‘dumb’ in action… type in your title that needs an apostrophe but don’t put the apostrophe in. Soup will obligingly put the apostrophe in for you… AND THEN TELL YOU YOU CANT HAVE IT!

Vijay
Pandit

Date: 11/30/2022 6:57:00 AM

I just edited title of one of my poems (Autumn - Constanza) and inserted apostrophe to see if it still works. And it does-- after update, it showed up as Autumn's - Constanza. I changed it back, of course. Mystery!

Vijay Pandit
Date: 12/2/2022 5:46:00 AM

I was only referring to apostrophe issue posted by Seeker. Try adding apostrophe after EDIT--see if it works for you.

Edward Ibeh
Date: 12/1/2022 11:18:00 AM

I hit the"Edit" link and tried adding "?" at the end of my poem titled "Would You Still Love Me." No dice! Go figure, lol.

Gary
Radice

Date: 11/30/2022 6:48:00 AM

Add brackets to that list too. I tried Vijay's fix but all I got was the usual message of: "Don't Use Special Characters Only letters, numbers, dashes, commas, apostrophes and colons are allowed in the title." (it does say apostrophes but judging by Unseeking's comments this isn't always the case) There must be a technical reason for it but it's beyond my knowledge and knowhow. Cheers - Gary

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 11/30/2022 12:07:00 PM

yeah, that happens to me too a lot.

Unseeking
Seeker

Date: 11/30/2022 6:45:00 AM

Oh, so there we are! Are you listening Admin?

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 11/30/2022 6:31:00 AM

It's not just the apostrophe but things like question marks and I believe colon too. These marks are also very vital to certain poems and I can't understand why they are disallowed. I have tried Vijay's EDIT fix, but it does not always work for me.

Vijay
Pandit

Date: 11/30/2022 5:47:00 AM

Let me recommend a quick fix that works for me: Click EDIT, then change your title the way you want, click UPDATE and you will see it works. Of course, it should work the first time when you post it--but this is a way around.

Unseeking Seeker
Date: 11/30/2022 6:46:00 AM

Tried it … doesn’t work

Edward
Ibeh

Date: 11/30/2022 2:37:00 AM

Oh, I hear you, Seeker! A few more "annoying" things need fixing as well. Not being allowed to include a question mark at the end of a poem title gets my goat more than anything. I know for sure I used to see it on poems about six years ago, but it was done away with. Why?

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