~~~, Let The Tilde Revolution Commence!

[Rollo]

I love ~

Please insert ~ everywhere!

[CarlMetro]

No! For ~ is evil, it is the sign of the chicken in Uzbekistan, and must therefore be destroyed by ^

[Storm]

what the ~~~~?

[harsha]

(~~) check this smiley out in yahoo messenger,found out about it from a friend

[Erki]

What's the point of it? :confused:
The only thing you can do with it is the letter Õ and that's it...

[schmenke]

I use it all the time. It makes an ideal delimiter :D

[donKey jote]

Qué coño! What the heck, I use it all the time too. :~ :s :p
http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_3_166.gif

[tinchote]

Qué coño! What the heck, I use it all the time too. :~ :s :p
http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_3_166.gif

~ is essential, without it we wouldn't be able to write "año", and we would have trouble with the result ;) :p :

[Gannex]

Down with ~ !!! All his tracks look the same.

[cos]

Useful for El Niño perhaps? And I believe ~~~~ produces one's 'signature' on Wikipedia...

[race aficionado]

Dang!
As of now, I am a confused tilde user.

Mind you, I was born and raised in Colombia, S.A. and tildes have been part of my life since I can remember.

And since I can remember, a tilde was always this:
é not ñ.
The symbol on top of the n is a squiggle, it's the symbol we can thankfully use when differentiating arse from year - ano / año.

tilde, I have always thought, was used to accentuate the word at a certain letter.
For example:
me la cagué, or
estúpido, or confundí . . . . etc.

Any way . . . . 51 years on this planet and still learning, or should I say, still confused and totally clueless . . . .

:s mokin:

[Eki]

~~~~ look something that fell down from a donkey's ass.

[Drew]

As a (hopeless) Spanish learner tought by a (hopeless) Galician teacher with a Catalan name, I was told that a tilde was the name for all Spanish accents and was just simply the Spanish word for accent :confused:

[jso1985]

is the name for the graphical accent(the one you need to write).

although I have no clue what's the name of ~ in spanish :s

´´´´´´

[Eki]

although I have no clue what's the name of ~ in spanish :s

´´´´´´
Umlaut.

[schmenke]

I thought the umlaut is the two dots, e.g. ë ?

[Rollo]

Does this warrant a poll? Umlaut vs Tilde - Whose cuisine will reign supreme? Bang a gong we are on! :D

[CarlMetro]

^^^

[Gannex]

^ Rules!
^ Rocks!
~ Sucks!
Now you know where I stand.

[Daniel]

The problem with the UK is that your ~'s are on the wrong part of the keyboard. Viva la US/International keyboard!

[Gannex]

They are very lucky to be on the UK keyboard at all. They suck!!
(Am I not right, CarlMetro?)

Are you seriously saying, Daniel, that you prefer ~ to ^ !!!!!! If you are, come out and say so.

[Storm]

Umlaut.

Ä - thats an umlaut as far as I know....
~ - tilde

Drew, so all accents are called tildes ? never heard that :confused:

I thought its just called acentos en español

[Daniel]

^ is a circumflex accent

[Donney]

Ä - thats an umlaut as far as I know....
~ - tilde

Drew, so all accents are called tildes ? never heard that :confused:

I thought its just called acentos en español


Acento is the word for stress and therefore also used to mean ´, but the proper name is tilde.

As you know all the words have a stress but not all have a tilde.

[Storm]

Ah ! so the written acento is called a tilde (i.e when the word does not follow the usual rules of stress...e.g la razón)

[Storm]

Ah ! so the written acento is called a tilde (i.e when the word does not follow the usual rules of stress...e.g la razón)

[Donney]

Exactly!

[Azumanga Davo]

S

Ah crap. Wrong orientation...

[CarlMetro]

They are very lucky to be on the UK keyboard at all. They suck!! (Am I not right, CarlMetro?)

Indeed :up:

Come the revolution ^ will be king ;)