what is ~ called?

NeVeR

we are in work and nothing better to do.... and no one knows what ~ is called anyone know.

RE*AC*TOR

tilda

Mr E

Tilde, actually

RE*AC*TOR

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

tilda

This is the right answer.

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quarryman

i think its either tilde or tilda

monkeyfudge

TmB wrote:

Tilde, actually

Yep.. it's Tilde.. but it's pronounced tilda.

Dave

it's tilde

TmB

TmB wrote:

Tilde, actually

I thought it was this too.


Edit: link

seamus

Pronounced "tild - eh" FYI.

DonkeyStyle \o/

The technical term is 'squiggle'.

blah

For more detailed information on the tilde, consult these helpful links.

Wikipedia

History of the tilde

dub1dude

The spanish put this over their letters to show a certain way of saying a word or name. Like Martinez would have a ~ over the n. Much like a fada in Irish or a cedilla on the botom of a French letter C. It sort of looks like an apostrophe under the C but connected to it.

Antisocialiser

pronounced teal - day for sure

Catsmokinpot

tilda

quarryman

how about '|' '¬' and '^' ?

RE*AC*TOR

lowercase "L"
stubbed penis
chinese hat

quarryman

grand.

just wanted to know so i could put the names into my thesis.

HarryHoudini

You idiots, its a squiggle.

DonkeyStyle \o/

quarryman wrote:

how about '|' '¬' and '^' ?

Actually the '^' is a circumflex (or caret) apparently.
I've always called '|' a pipe... don't ask me why.
And Wiki refers to '¬' here.

Stephen

'|' is called a pipe. At least in computing circles anyway. Dunno wtf ¬ is.

Lump

Bent Pipe?

John

Pigman II

quarryman wrote:

how about '|' '¬' and '^' ?

Personally I call them 'pipe', 'billy no mates' and 'power of'

~ is wormboy.

seamus

¬ is known as "NOT" sign, as said. Also known as an angled dash in typography.

God bless google.

Trojan

Don't forget ampersand, hash (bang, pound), and backtick.

Naos

/cries

D

Mear wrote:

/cries

Lol

NeVeR

lol... didnt mean to start a big post,, thanks for the replies, we all know now,, i think,

StupidLikeAFox

how do you type a tilde/tilda/squiggle anyway?

cmaclo

on my keyboard in work its
shift + #
my keyboard at home doesnt have it (??)

Stephen

American layout keyboards have it on the top left, beside 1.

Maximilian

It actually originates from the name Matilda (or Matilde as its spelled in German) after Matilda von Gruer, the celebrated left-handed heretic burned at the stake in 1478 for claiming that hyphens could actually be written in a curved fashion, which was contrary to the teachings of St. Cyprian of Carthage. The tilde/tilda was believed to resemble a serpent, commonly used to depict Satan.

StupidLikeAFox

~~~~~

Yeah prob should have looked a bit harder

So whats this " ¦ " then ?

blondie83

Maximilian wrote:

It actually originates from the name Matilda (or Matilde as its spelled in German) after Matilda von Gruer, the celebrated left-handed heretic burned at the stake in 1478 for claiming that hyphens could actually be written in a curved fashion, which was contrary to the teachings of St. Cyprian of Carthage. The tilde/tilda was believed to resemble a serpent, commonly used to depict Satan.

Its really quite amusing what you can learn on boards!

kawaii

I thought it was only called a tilde if it was over an 'n' in spanish...

grimloch

I always called it the "squiggle thing" and then used a jand gesture to assist in the meanings conveyance.

Talliesin

kawaii wrote:

I thought it was only called a tilde if it was over an 'n' in spanish...

The same character was used in some early typing, printing, typesetting and computing systems for both the tilde that appears over certain letters in certain languages, taking it's name from the Spanish language where it is used over the n, the swung dash, the "tilde operator" derived from it (used variously to mean "varies with", "difference between", "similar to", "not" or "cycle"), the reversed lazy S ("most positive") and the even sine wave/alternating current symbols.

It later acquired some further uses restricted to computing where it was convenient as a symbol that not many people (especially English speakers) were using much. An example of this would be to indicate a user directory.

Due to it being pressed into service for use as what is really several different characters the same name began to be used for all of them. The ~ character is no longer used as a diacritical mark, instead either precomposed characters (such as the Ñ and ñ used in Spanish) are used or else a combining character is used after a base character. Ironically, despite no longer being used as a tilde the official name for the character ~ is TILDE (or U+007E TILDE in cases where the codepoint is given).

kawaii

Oh...

Capt'n Midnight

ColHol wrote:

So whats this " ¦ " then ?

A pipe (Dos)

How many names has this guy ?
# - sharp / hash / pound (US) / cardinal etc.

kawaii

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

How many names has this guy ?
# - sharp / hash / pound (US) / cardinal etc.

Looks like 4 to me...