♠Soul♠ Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 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: ~ "wow you're really cute i want to lick your feet~" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousSpeed Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 It's called a 'tilde' and you're correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♠Soul♠ Posted December 28, 2022 Author Share Posted December 28, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♠Soul♠ Posted December 29, 2022 Author Share Posted December 29, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benice Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 How dare you, I'm very nice~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dayni Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shanty Pete's 1st Mate Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousSpeed Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indigoasis Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dayni Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♠Soul♠ Posted December 30, 2022 Author Share Posted December 30, 2022 Well then, you guys are more cultured than the average "weeb", then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron the Shining Blade Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 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". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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