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[Yannanth]

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[Max White]

That is a good question. What did happen to ein?

[Leafsnail]

Nah, tildes at the end of a sentence are used informally to indicate a sing-song manner of speaking.  Pitch going up and down, that sort of thing.

That said, tread lightly, for you tread upon an old wound of this forum

[penguinofhonor]

Does it make you angry, baka~?

[kaijyuu]

I use it to signify a... playful tone of voice, usually. I'll use them for flirting, for jokes, for being facetious, etc~

[Furtuka]

Yeah I've used a few times to give it a sing song quality. Never knew it had any connection with japanese punctuation

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It has the sing-song meaning in English, but does it also retain that back to Japanese?

Also, since we're so close to it, what the hell is hypertilde (It's this:`) used for?

[Leafsnail]

It has the sing-song meaning in English, but does it also retain that back to Japanese?

Yes.  At least that is what I'm lead to believe☆

[Slayerhero90]

It has the sing-song meaning in English, but does it also retain that back to Japanese?

Also, since we're so close to it, what the hell is hypertilde (It's this:`) used for?

Emoticons.

Tildes look lik worms and snakes. Nothing against snakes, but worms.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It has the sing-song meaning in English, but does it also retain that back to Japanese?

Yes.  At least that is what I'm lead to believe☆

* MetalSlimeHunt twitches in the manner of a low-grade seizure.

[Max White]

It has the sing-song meaning in English, but does it also retain that back to Japanese?

Also, since we're so close to it, what the hell is hypertilde (It's this:`) used for?

I was under the impression that this thing (') was meant to be used for the 'single quotation marks' where as this thing (`) was originally meant for conjunctions and other somethin`s.

[Pnx]

It's used in Japanese subtitles to denote when you hold a note when singing something, so something like "Ohhhhhhhh", becomes, "Oh~". Then it got picked up by other people who wanted to denote being "whimsical".

[Leafsnail]

But we already have other ways of doing that ♪

[Max White]

But we already have other ways of doing that ♪

If people thought like that than nobody would use =), rather they would use ☺

[Slayerhero90]

This~ immensely~ bothers~ me~!~

THE WORMS! THEY'RE CRAWLING ON ME!