I've said it before and I'll say it again:

[cimorene]

"~" is not a punctuation mark in English. Kill it. With fire.

Comments

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

*gets out her matches and petrol* Let's do this bitch.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

Um. It's a tilda. Do people really use a tilda when not speaking/typing Spanish? How? *is boggled*

[vass]

When their characters are whi~i~ning. Yes, they could have used a hyphen or just doubled the vowels, but they thought that would look silly. They thought *that* would look silly.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

Oh yuck. That makes me vaguely ill. The internet: not for the grammatically faint of heart.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

A lot of anime/jpop fans use it like this~ Because it's common in Japanese, so of course that means we should all use it in English, too~ It makes you look really stupid cool, don't you know~

[cimness.livejournal.com]

It's a punctuation mark in Japanese. They use it when they have a background in fangirl Japanese.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

Learn something new every day. I'd only ever encountered it in Spanish.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

Huh. That is not my corner of the interent, I guess. Plus, I had no idea it was common in Japanse

[cimness.livejournal.com]

The diacritical mark called the tilde exists in Spanish, Portuguese and other languages, and is used in linguistics, but the Japanese punctuation mark isn't the same thing - it just happens to look the same.