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Tellemurius

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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #90 on: December 17, 2012, 07:43:38 pm »
dunno shes been gone on steam for more than a month now, busy?
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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #91 on: December 17, 2012, 07:46:22 pm »
I think Iceball knows where she is
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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #92 on: December 17, 2012, 07:49:28 pm »
hes been MIA also for the last days, i mean its the weekends thats ultimate game time. this is actually the first time im looking through my steam friends list, WHO THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE
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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #93 on: December 17, 2012, 08:52:34 pm »
Quote from: Max White on December 16, 2012, 09:45:34 pm
I love the Australian stereotype. The drunken moron in khaki shorts who fights crocs with his bare hands and carries around a bowie knife to shave with. It is hilarious! I mean seriously, I'm surprised there isn't a culture of people in stupid looking hats pretending to be Australian because of the 'tough guy' image. Plus it is a lot easier to pull off when the native language is some sort of mangled English and nobody expects you to say anything smart.
Truly the Australian stereotype is god among stereotypes, and I hope to one day meet somebody like that.

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Max White

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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #94 on: December 17, 2012, 08:54:54 pm »
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My god... Stupid hat and all!
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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #95 on: December 17, 2012, 09:43:40 pm »
In the world of mathematics, the tilde, ~, means similar. One could interpret the tilde as saying like what the punctuation states, but the implication of more. The general use of the tilde with  ♪ and the like, plus the wavering of the tilde itself, has lead to the interpretation of pitch change and music. Because of this interpretation, it is generally used with playful, happy messages.

Take these examples of punctuation as to how it affects tone:

Hello.

Hello!

Hello?

Hello!? and Hello?!

Hello~

Each one of these is the same word, but each conveys a slightly different meaning due to how we have learned to interpret the punctuation. The tilde, seems more friendly, almost like singing (At least to me.).

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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #96 on: December 17, 2012, 09:45:18 pm »
Thinking all of those different hellos is freaking me out.
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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #97 on: December 17, 2012, 09:47:16 pm »
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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #98 on: December 17, 2012, 09:49:00 pm »
What do you make of 'Hello...'
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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #99 on: December 17, 2012, 09:54:02 pm »
That's either "Hey, notice this/me", "Hello, I'm conveying that I don't want to talk to you", or "Hello, I am cripplingly shy".
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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #100 on: December 17, 2012, 10:04:28 pm »
It's always door three for me.
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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #101 on: December 17, 2012, 10:05:15 pm »
Interesting. I got it as more of a hesitant questioning hello, like "is anybody here" but more of when you first walk into a creepy empty house type thing. Ellipses are really dependent upon the context that they are present in for determining their exact meaning.
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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #102 on: December 17, 2012, 10:32:37 pm »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on December 17, 2012, 09:54:02 pm
That's either "Hey, notice this/me", "Hello, I'm conveying that I don't want to talk to you", or "Hello, I am cripplingly shy".
You can safely assume that my grotesque over use of ellipses is because my mind is stuck in a constant state of the first example...
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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #103 on: December 17, 2012, 10:38:58 pm »
Quote from: Mageziya on December 17, 2012, 09:43:40 pm
In the world of mathematics, the tilde, ~, means similar.
Fun thing, in one of the major systems of formal logic (Though, uh. I forget the name at the moment. S-something.) ~ is standard notation for not (well, negation, to be specific.). A = ~A is a standard expression of paradox, ferex. Seems like they might be trying t'phase it out, though.
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Re: Why do weaboos use tildes to end sentences?
« Reply #104 on: December 17, 2012, 10:44:28 pm »
Damn declarative logic! In any sort of imperative logical system you can use statements like "A = not A" without problem! Screw your paradox and screw your paradigm.
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