What do the symbols: "ampersand" "hash" "3" "9" "semicolon" "s" mean when put together onto another word?

Question

Read it outloud if it helps.

I can't quite figure it out, it takes the place of 's many times and tacked on to nouns. Is it just a drawn out 's in computer talk? When typed, as page changes or is converted or submitted, it comes out 's. Try typing it in your answer. You will see. Can anyone explain this?

And what do I do when I see these often without using them? Is it only happening on my computer? Could it be a virus?

Answer 1

You've got the basic idea.

The value &-#-3-9-; (without the hyphens) is the "ASCII" code for the single quote/apostrophe. Of course, that symbol will be used when a word ends with 's (and so you might see it appearing with an s following it).

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), pronounced [ˈæski], is a character encoding. The codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

For more of a description, and a chart of the ASCII code for commonsymbols see:
http://bignosebird.com/ascii.shtml

Note, incidentally, that this chart also gives you to key to how to produce these symbols with your own computer keyboard OR in HTML code. For instance, I can form the © (copyright) sign by pressing holding down the ALT key while I type out the digits 0 1 6 9 on the numeric keypad. In HTML code, I would type #-1-6-9 (again, without typing the hyphens) to produce the same symbol on my web page. (Now for some of the common symbols HTML has also developed easy alternatives -- in this case it is &-copy-; (without hyphens). Notice then that the ampersand and semicolon are used to set off each specific ASCII code symbol (letter, etc).

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

it means someone is trying to use an expletive and they don't want to spell it out. what word? look at it's context within the sentence