Thursday, November 20, 2008

Underappreciated Punctuation III: The Tilde

Besides turning Lemonade into the Mexican LemoƱade, 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.

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