punctuation cim despises #1,600,042

[cimorene]

thse thingies. ~~blahblah.~~

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[cimness.livejournal.com]

ah, you're right.

[jrivka.livejournal.com]

do people use them as punctuation? i thought they were just for the occasional url, and to put over spanish letters. what do they do as punctuation?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

they're not called tildes when over letters, to my knowledge (and those letters are not confined to spanish). they use them in punctuation in stories when they're trying to invent their own standards of punctuation for thoughts, telepathy, flashbacks, and other things that can be perfectly well indicated by existing punctuation, line breaks, and the intelligence of the reader.

[jrivka.livejournal.com]

i will confess to my absolute lack of knowledge regarding foreign languages, and people who use them in the manner described need to be shot sat down and given a creative writing lesson or seventeen.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

like portugeuse has a+~ and o+~ and somewhere i've seen it over a consonant.

[jrivka.livejournal.com]

fascinating.


...and as there is no way to make that look non-sarcastic, i assure you that i meant it.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

no, i know, that was my reaction. it's Sa~o Paulo, for instance, i think. it's just... cool.