There has to be some proper use for a tilde (~)... but independent of an accent mark, what is its purpose exactly?
When DO you use a tilde~?
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I'm only familiar with it as a Spanish accentuation mark. Over an 'n', it changes the pronunciation ie., over the second n in nino the word is pronounced 'neenyo'.
If there was no tilde, it would be pronounced 'neeno'.
Any help?
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by 'there has to be a proper' use for it'? Are there other 'proper' uses for our punctation marks, or the French or German accentuation marks?
If there was no tilde, it would be pronounced 'neeno'.
Any help?
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by 'there has to be a proper' use for it'? Are there other 'proper' uses for our punctation marks, or the French or German accentuation marks?
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I use it as a thibbiiitt :}~~~
but as a tilde over a letter I think you'd need to chose Insert then Symbol in a Word menu
but as a tilde over a letter I think you'd need to chose Insert then Symbol in a Word menu
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Si señor, it changes the sound.
Ñ and ñ (described as Latin characters) are found in the Windows Character Map (Start > Run > charmap > OK) from where they can easily be copy/pasted.
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Ñ and ñ (described as Latin characters) are found in the Windows Character Map (Start > Run > charmap > OK) from where they can easily be copy/pasted.
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For writing software. Some programming languages use the tilde as a bitwise not operator.
I sometimes use it in my notes (but not in my writing for others to read, I think) as a shorthand for approximately.
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I thought I answered your post by giving you its use and purpose but seems we are on different wavelengths here.
I thought I answered your post by giving you its use and purpose but seems we are on different wavelengths here.
There are several, when writing in french that are used, for instance, if you are writing the word cliché, you'd use the mark over the e.
This mark is made by using the alt key, plus a number. For instance to make the é, one would hold down the alt key, then type the number 130
alt+130 = é
I have the list for all the french symbols needed.
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It seems like more than half the uses for a tilde can't actually be done with the tilde key on a keyboard. And most uses of the tilde as puctuation can also be shown with other symbols, which aren't on a keyboard.
So the tilde key doesn't seem like the most useful one there could possibly be. Why not make it a special symbol instead of giving it a key?
Anyway, I wonder if it's because the ~ is used in computerspeak.
I dunno about DOS but in Unix systems it's used to pop back to the home directory. That seems like an important enough function that it could be included as a somewhat-useful punctuation mark.
Or maybe I'm thinking about it backwards, and the computerpeople use it because it's there.
So the tilde key doesn't seem like the most useful one there could possibly be. Why not make it a special symbol instead of giving it a key?
Anyway, I wonder if it's because the ~ is used in computerspeak.
I dunno about DOS but in Unix systems it's used to pop back to the home directory. That seems like an important enough function that it could be included as a somewhat-useful punctuation mark.
Or maybe I'm thinking about it backwards, and the computerpeople use it because it's there.
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It's easy to use on Star Office 8. Then I copy and paste the tilde n, ao, ae, and oe to MS Word and repeated the words as needed for my novel set in Brazil and another in Spain. To transfer the entire novel from Office 8 to Word creates major formatting problems.
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