People like to use it like this~ and that's terrible~

im going to start use them as punctuation just to annoy you~

I don't think this will work. =^.^=

Usage is king, prescriptivist~

but tildes are sexy~

'~'

I thought the tilda as punctuation meant, "delivered in a sing-song".

Periods make a statement. Exclamation marks make a shout! Tildas make a song~

how about you butt out of what we use as punctuation

Ryuzaki_Izawa said:
how about you butt out of what we use as punctuation

it's not nice to get mad at the internet

I didn't even know that ~ had a name

TheHuskyK9 said:
I didn't even know that ~ had a name

Furrin_Gok said:
is known as a grave, by the way. [/quote] Nope, these are the proper names: ~ The squiggly That thing under the squiggly that's not an apostrophe

Furrin_Gok said:
is known as a grave, by the way. [/quote] and . is known as menstruation.

I can't help thinking this would have fit perfectly as a reply to this other thread instead of it's own thread. But it's already done, so it's ok I suppose.

And no, we're not going to make a rule about how people should or should not punctuate their own comments and forum posts. If they want to use tildes, they can. The only place people can't use tildes is in tags, and that's because it causes malfunctions with searches if someone tries to use one as a tag anywhere. So it's a practical limitation, and not really because we have any problems with the symbol.

Durandal said:
and . is known as menstruation.

Or a "full stop" if one happens to be British (or so I've been told). Americans call it a "period".

parasprite said:
Nope, these are the proper names:

~ The squiggly
That thing under the squiggly that's not an apostrophe[/quote] I always just draw it in midair when I have to reference it in real life. Or say "you know that wavy line thingy?" (...and then draw it in midair). lol I'd honestly forgotten it's name or that it had one until this thread. I'm gonna sound so much smarter the next time it comes up in real life...lol

TheHuskyK9 said:
I didn't even know that ~ had a name

Tilde was my sisters name~

furrypickle said:

Or a "full stop" if one happens to be British (or so I've been told). Americans call it a "period".

"We've reached full stop girls, tamp the cannons!"

Catachan said:
it's not nice to get mad at the internet

You're the Internet? My, I'm being quite disrespectful.

Yeah, the point still stands. You literally can't stop people from using it.

Ryuzaki_Izawa said:
You're the Internet? My, I'm being quite disrespectful.

Yeah, the point still stands. You literally can't stop people from using it.

He can forcefully usurp EDF and ban everyone who uses it.

Catachan said:
People like to use it like this~ and that's terrible~

Not nearly as bad as people who use multiple periods to insert pauses into their stream-of-consciousness writing

Durandal said:
He can forcefully usurp EDF and ban everyone who uses it.

By hacking? Isn't e621 ridiculously hard to hack?

Also they still wouldn't be able to.

Ryuzaki_Izawa said:
By hacking? Isn't e621 ridiculously hard to hack?

Also they still wouldn't be able to.

I am not a person, I am an idea. I can never be destroyed.

Also, no, we're not banning tilde :P That's like banning all the WoW players that spell their class "rouge".

They would never have any players.

EDFDarkAngel1 said:
That's like banning all the WoW players that spell their class "rouge".

They would never have any players.

lol!

I love a good ~, but I certainly wouldn't ever use it as a period.

EDFDarkAngel1 said:
Also, no, we're not banning tilde :P That's like banning all the WoW players that spell their class "rouge".

What class do you play as?
Oh, I play as a reddish colour, you've probably never heard of it.

EDFDarkAngel1 said:
Also, no, we're not banning tilde :P That's like banning all the WoW players that spell their class "rouge".

Wait, that's not how you spell it?! My life is a lie!

31h253 said:
I thought the tilda as punctuation meant, "delivered in a sing-song".

Periods make a statement. Exclamation marks make a shout! Tildas make a song~

This is how I use it too :P

faaart~

Tokaido said:
This is how I use it too :P

Huzzah! The lack of agreement had made me wonder if I was just wrong.

Ozelot said:
faaart~

Just wrong, like Ozelot.

Honestly that petition is like asking someone to get banned for liking Boiled eggs. it doesn't hurt much at all, if you are worried about language though, you should be more concerned about the broken text speech.
However that would be bad since we would totally lose the origin of easy memeable text. my personal favority is U WOT M8?

Also, whatever, let's join the train.

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+++
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¶ « ¡~0 ^fux—i.e., a №|quantity _less_ than one—given! »

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❧ Triggered; ✓ your grammar… ☙

Furrin_Gok said:
is known as a grave, by the way. [/quote] You have made a error teaching me that.

Goofing off aside: thanks for that little lesson. I always referred to it as "the single-quote that breaks my code"

if your_opinion ~= any_importance;
     disp('I ~ can ~ tilde ~ all ~ day ~ motherfucker!')
     your_opinion = shit;
else 
     disp('HAHA!~ Theres ~ nothing ~ you ~ can ~ do ~ to ~ stop ~ me!')
     your_opinion = still_shit;
end

>> your_opinion

I ~ can ~ tilde ~ all ~ day ~ motherfucker!

Nyteshade said:
You have made a error teaching me that. [spoiler]Goofing off aside: thanks for that little lesson. I always referred to it as "the single-quote that breaks my code"[/spoiler] [/quote] I used to call it the backwards appostrophe.

From my side, we can't ban tildes at all, otherwise, we wouldn't be able to say jalapeño or, in year's end, we would be wishing for a happy new anus instead of a new year :I

& – ampersand
! – bang (AKA exclamation point)
^ – caret
? – eroteme (AKA question marl)
« » – guillemets (used as quotation marks in several languages)
‽ – interrobang (AKA the love child of an eroteme after a bang)
¶ – pilcrow
~ – tilde
/ – virgule (AKA slash or diagonal)

Clawstripe said:
& – ampersand
! – bang (AKA exclamation point)
^ – caret
? – eroteme (AKA question marl)
« » – guillemets (used as quotation marks in several languages)
‽ – interrobang (AKA the love child of an eroteme after a bang)
¶ – pilcrow
~ – tilde
/ – virgule (AKA slash or diagonal)

Those first three I knew, but Eroteme? That's new. Always wondered what those double-than symbols were called, nice to know they're called guillemets. The interrobang is actually also known as the Sarcasm Mark. Place it at the end of a sarcastic sentence, and people will know it's sarcastic, or that's how it's supposed to work.
Didn't know about Virgule either. What about the backslash? The \. Or ¦, which I only know as the broken bar?

Furrin_Gok said:
Those first three I knew, but Eroteme? That's new. Always wondered what those double-than symbols were called, nice to know they're called guillemets. The interrobang is actually also known as the Sarcasm Mark. Place it at the end of a sarcastic sentence, and people will know it's sarcastic, or that's how it's supposed to work.
Didn't know about Virgule either. What about the backslash? The \. Or ¦, which I only know as the broken bar?

Hmm. What character is that?
I thought it was | (pipe character, many fonts render it as a broken bar), but..

*looks at gucharmap*

It (U+00A6) is, in fact, called "broken bar", "broken vertical bar", or "parted rule" (in typography)

The pipe character | I thought you were referring to is called "vertical line" or "vertical bar".

Clawstripe said:
& – ampersand
! – bang (AKA exclamation point)
^ – caret
? – eroteme (AKA question marl)
« » – guillemets (used as quotation marks in several languages)
‽ – interrobang (AKA the love child of an eroteme after a bang)
¶ – pilcrow
~ – tilde
/ – virgule (AKA slash or diagonal)

√ - check mark
ƒ - fancy f
∞ - Sideways 8
¡ - that upside-down exclamation mark that you only see in Spanish

Ö - A single letter smiley

☺ - This smiley

☻ - That smiley

☹ - :<

savageorange said:
Hmm. What character is that?
I thought it was | (pipe character, many fonts render it as a broken bar), but..

*looks at gucharmap*

It (U+00A6) is, in fact, called "broken bar", "broken vertical bar", or "parted rule" (in typography)

The pipe character | I thought you were referring to is called "vertical line" or "vertical bar".

alt+0166 makes the broken bar. Shift+\ makes the full bar.

True test of browser: 💩

Furrin_Gok said:
alt+0166 makes the broken bar.

Only on Windows, thankfully.
On Linux, it's Ctrl+Shift+U a6 .
On Mac, it's Option+00a6 (or possibly just Option+a6, I haven't got a Mac to test with)

Lance_Armstrong said:
True test of browser: 

Is that a pile of poop?

💩

Furrin_Gok said:
What about the backslash? The \. Or ¦, which I only know as the broken bar?

According to Wikipedia, the backslash is also called a hack, whack, escape (from C/UNIX), reverse slash, slosh, backslant, downhill, backwhack, and in rare occasions, bash, reverse slant, and reversed virgule. I guess the backslash is really whacked out. Wacky.

I've heard the | be called the pipe shift, but it's apparently the pipe or the vertical bar, sometimes the polon or glidus.
____

TheGreatWolfgang said:

Ö - A single letter smiley

☺ - This smiley

☻ - That smiley

☹ - :<

ö – Eek face

Ö – Eeeek face (the extra Es are e-ssential)

ō – Yawn face

ő – Mooger face

____

Durandal said:
√ - check mark

You make a good point, actually.

ƒ - fancy f

Florin symbol.

∞ - Sideways 8

It's actually a lazy 8, but it takes forever to finish its nap.

¡ - that upside-down exclamation mark that you only see in Spanish

Along with its sister ¿ – that upside-down question mark that you only see in Spanish. ;p

TheGreatWolfgang said:
Is that a pile of poop?



Yuppers

Welcome to the wonderful world of widely used portuguese accents.

´ - acute accent

^ - circumflex accent

~ - tilde (differently from spanish tildes are only used on ã and õ, the spanish ñ is broken into "nh")

ç - c-cedilla (this makes ca (ka) co (ko) cu (ku) turn into ça (sa) ço (so) çu (su) under very strict rules, it still confuses me even being my mother language, also ce sounds like (se) and ci sounds like (si) so it can't be used on those)

and up untill some years ago we also used ¨ diaresis but it was completely vanished with the last orthographic review.

Unrelated 「 」 these are japanese " ".

Just_Another_Dragon said:
Unrelated 「 」 these are japanese " ".

And «» are French (among other languages)

TheGreatWolfgang said:

Ö - A single letter smiley

☺ - This smiley

☻ - That smiley

☹ - :<

Ü - super happy face

Lance_Armstrong said:
True test of browser: 💩

It bothers me how Chrome still doesn't support emoji for some reason. Especially when right-clicking the character will show it just fine. :(

savageorange said:
On Mac, it's Option+00a6 (or possibly just Option+a6, I haven't got a Mac to test with)

As long as you enable the unicode hex input keyboard of course.

"Edit -> Special Characters" is probably the easiest way to do any of those that you can't do on the keyboard even in extended mode. And unlike Windows, it's been updated since Windows 95 and thus it's actually easy to find things and well organized (I don't remember if Windows has a search, but OS X does).

Kaeetayel said:
And «» are French (among other languages)

Also used in Chinese as an alternative for 「 」.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°): Lenny Face

And every single character even known to mankind that can be typed on a keyboard.

Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép

Just a silly phrase that contains all the accented characters of the Hungarian alphabet. So it's useful for testing font compatibility. (Use Google Translate for some laughs. It actually gives a pretty decent result for this.)

EsalRider said:
Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép

Just a silly phrase that contains all the accented characters of the Hungarian alphabet. So it's useful for testing font compatibility. (Use Google Translate for some laughs. It actually gives a pretty decent result for this.)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=hu&u=http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25C3%2581rv%25C3%25ADzt%25C5%25B1r%25C5%2591_t%25C3%25BCk%25C3%25B6rf%25C3%25BAr%25C3%25B3g%25C3%25A9p&prev=search

?

"We asked five cooling housing lean meat"

º_º

AAAAAAAaªaªaªaªahhhh....

furballs_dc said:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=hu&u=http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%25C3%2581rv%25C3%25ADzt%25C5%25B1r%25C5%2591_t%25C3%25BCk%25C3%25B6rf%25C3%25BAr%25C3%25B3g%25C3%25A9p&prev=search

?

"We asked five cooling housing lean meat"

"Smelly Toilet juice (consumable-IQ exvőpár work) makes you angry." LMAO...but you know, it probably does...

What the fuck is going on in this thread?

JoeX said:
What the fuck is going on in this thread?

People crying ¡^¡

Lizardite said:
People crying ¡^¡

('_')

JoeX said:
What the fuck is going on in this thread?

I don't know anymore. =O_O=

furballs_dc said:
I don't know anymore. =O_O=

☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)

JoeX said:
What the fuck is going on in this thread?

http://i.imgur.com/Kcu2JqK.jpg

parasprite said:
http://i.imgur.com/Kcu2JqK.jpg

Ayy lmao. ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)

ಠ_ಠ

º¿º

(.Y.)

(΄◞ิ౪◟ิ‵)ʃ ~~~

(ಥ⌣ಥ)_____________(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ ლ(ಠ益ಠლ

I like looking at people fighting.

JoeX said:
(.Y.)

heh

Someone give me a hug c(-.-c)

TheHuskyK9 said:
Someone give me a hug c(-.-c)

(D-.-)D

TheHuskyK9 said:
Someone give me a hug c(-.-c)

(づ￣ ³￣)づ how about a kiss?

TheGreatWolfgang said:
(づ￣ ³￣)づ how about a kiss?

ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=┌(;￣◇￣)┘ I farted. >:3c

this thread

parasprite said:
this thread

( ͡ʘ╭͜ʖ╮͡ʘ) *heavy breathing* Tell me more.

JoeX said:
( ͡ʘ╭͜ʖ╮͡ʘ) *heavy breathing* Tell me more.

http://i.imgur.com/RDPVHNF.gif

parasprite said:
http://i.imgur.com/RDPVHNF.gif

It's official. E621 is now an affiliate of 4Chan.