Underappreciated Punctuation III: The Tilde
Besides turning Lemonade into the Mexican Lemoñade, the tilde is useless I think we can all agree.
Oh, you wanted a encomium for the tilde? Fine, obliged.
Besides its diacritical usage, the tilde, when not being used as a swung dash, also has the punctilious use of abbreviation. However, such usage should be considered obs.
Oh, you wanted a encomium for the tilde? Fine, obliged.
Besides its diacritical usage, the tilde, when not being used as a swung dash, also has the punctilious use of abbreviation. However, such usage should be considered obs.
Labels: diacritic, obsolescence, punctuation, tilde
posted by justin | 9:00 a.m.
3 Comments:
I feel obligated to point out that in propositional/predicate logic, the tilda is deeply important, as it represents "not". The Law of Non Contradiction (the most important law, written by Aristotle) that something "cannot both be and not-be at one and the same time in one and the same place" is often written ~(A & ~A).
This is the second time to date I have employed anything I learned in a philosophy class outside of the classroom.
Just use a not sign: ¬
That's more of a math thing, we don't really need to worry about equivalence relations. Most philosophy textbooks I've used use the tilda.
Why don't you just take your ideas about progressive notation and head back to Russia where you came from.
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