The swiggle swaggle thingy is very weeb and cringe.

[♠Soul♠]

You know, the little swiggle swaggle thingy weebs use when they think they're being cute, charming and alluring, but they really just sound like a creepy pedophile.

You know, this thing:

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"wow you're really cute i want to lick your feet~"

[AnonymousSpeed]

It's called a 'tilde' and you're correct.

[♠Soul♠]

12 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:

It's called a 'tilde' and you're correct.

I know what it's called, but "swiggle swaggle thingy" makes more sense.

[Original Alear]

I use the ~ to represent "sort of." Like it kind of looks like a wave, so I think it means wavering or vacillating. I don't know what it's actually for. I guess I'll google it.

As it turns out, in math, it does indicate similarity. I guess I secretly like math.

Edited December 29, 2022 by Original Johan Liebert

[♠Soul♠]

45 minutes ago, Original Johan Liebert said:

I use the ~ to represent "sort of." Like it kind of looks like a wave, so I think it means wavering or vacillating. I don't know what it's actually for. I guess I'll google it.

As it turns out, in math, it does indicate similarity. I guess I secretly like math.

Someone using it properly? Nonesense.

[Benice]

How dare you, I'm very nice~

[Punished Dayni]

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[Shanty Pete's 1st Mate]

Great point. If they had just written

17 hours ago, ♠Soul♠ said:

wow you're really cute i want to lick your feet

I would have assumed them to be respectable and well-adjusted. 

[Original Alear]

I mean honestly I don't want to lick anybody's feet but if someone wanted to lick my feet...

Well I've been using foot medication so I'd warn them not to.

[AnonymousSpeed]

14 hours ago, Original Johan Liebert said:

As it turns out, in math, it does indicate similarity. I guess I secretly like math.

14 hours ago, ♠Soul♠ said:

Someone using it properly? Nonesense.

Oh yeah, tildes are fine for saying something like "it's ~144 eggs" and such.

1 hour ago, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:

I would have assumed them to be respectable and well-adjusted. 

They would at least seem...confident?

[indigoasis]

I can't say I often come across scenarios that use a tilde like that, but when I do, I typically ignore it. That's something I'd usually find in chat when I play TF2. Otherwise, yeah, I'd say it can lead to some discomfort.

Outside of such scenarios, I sometimes use it as a spacer between paragraphs to indicate a change or transition, like to end one section of a story and move onto the next without separating things too much; it's functionally like a scene change in a movie or show, and instead of moving onto a new chapter, I can use a couple tildes to keep things within the same chapter and keep the flow going. An empty gap of space does the same job just fine, but using tildes makes it look so much nicer.

[Punished Dayni]

3 minutes ago, indigoasis said:

Outside of such scenarios, I sometimes use it as a spacer between paragraphs to indicate a change or transition, like to end one section of a story and move onto the next without separating things too much; it's functionally like a scene change in a movie or show, and instead of moving onto a new chapter, I can use a couple tildes to keep things within the same chapter and keep the flow going. An empty gap of space does the same job just fine, but using tildes makes it look so much nicer.

It's more elegant than using equal, hyphen or underscore for that too.

[♠Soul♠]

Well then, you guys are more cultured than the average "weeb", then.

[Baron the Shining Blade]

From what I've seen, the tilde is also used as sort of a secondary hyphen, for instance to categorize music tracks like Leif's Army in Search of Victory ~ Base (in fact all of FE5's soundtrack uses a tilde this way).

On 12/28/2022 at 7:10 PM, Original Johan Liebert said:

I use the ~ to represent "sort of." Like it kind of looks like a wave, so I think it means wavering or vacillating. I don't know what it's actually for. I guess I'll google it.

As it turns out, in math, it does indicate similarity. I guess I secretly like math.

Makes sense, especially since there's also this math symbol  ≈

Two tildes making a tilde equal sign, and as you might expect it means "approximately equal to" or "almost equal to".

[Original Alear]

20 hours ago, ♠Soul♠ said:

Well then, you guys are more cultured than the average "weeb", then.

Or we act that way in this SF setting.