What is the ~ called in grammatical terms and what is it used for?
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I’ve forever wondered what the ~~~~ thing is called and what it’s used for. Never knew though. :/ Friends call it a cheese doodle or a squiggle.
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The ~ called the ’tilde’.
Tilde: noun
1. a diacritic (~) placed over an n, as in Spanish mañana, to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel, as in Portuquese são, to indicate nasalization.
2. swung dash.
3. Mathematics. a symbol (∼) indicating equivalency or similarity between two values.
4. Logic. a similar symbol indicating negation.
i personally use it as a nose for my smiley faces -> :~)
It’s a tilde. You put them over the ‘n’ in Spanish to make the "nya" sound.
The tilde ( ˜ or ~; pronounced /ˈtɪldə/) is a grapheme with several uses. The name of the character comes from Spanish, from the Latin titulus meaning a title or superscription, though the term “tilde” has evolved in that language and now has a different meaning in linguistics. The tilde is colloquially known as a ‘squiggly’ by people who do not know its name.
It was originally written over a letter as a mark of abbreviation, but has since acquired a number of other uses as a diacritic mark or a character in its own right, and there are a number of Unicode characters for these different roles. In the latter capacity (especially in lexicography), the tilde or swung dash (⁓) is used in dictionaries to indicate the omission of the entry word.[1] It is also used in online chat situations to denote sarcasm.
It’s called a tilde. (TIL-duh) It means you pronounce the letter underneath it with a certain accent. The best way I can describe it is to translate the Spanish canon (with tilde over first n) and make it pronounced like the English canyon.