Chat Thread 34: Something I Shouldn't Be Chatting About

[Ebly]

Please, do not make posts purely of an up tack, no matter how sarcastic your silence is.

oh i was so tempted to reply to this with just an up tack, but you're right that people shouldn't do that

and it would have been mean

[Dissension]

I would have deleted your post and sent a PM reminding you not to make one-word or single-image responses. This probably would have caused us to have some sort of silly chat via IM.

[Sleet]

Wouldn't sarcastic silence really mean a well thought-out, productive post?

[Ebly]

I would have deleted your post and sent a PM reminding you not to make one-word or single-image responses. This probably would have caused us to have some sort of silly chat via IM.

isn't it kind of odd to respond to my post with a hypothetical response to the hypothetical post that was never actually made

maybe you just have a weird sense of humour

[Dissension]

Isn't it obvious? I mean, seriously, you've known me for three plus years.

[Ebly]

This is true



but that just means that you've known me for three plus years

that's kind of amazing

[Psykeout]

Please, do not make posts purely of an up tack, no matter how sarcastic your silence is.

oh i was so tempted to reply to this with just an up tack, but you're right that people shouldn't do that

and it would have been mean

⊥

Tackin' it to the man.

Mod Edit: Do not make single-image or one-word posts. Additionally, do not make multiple posts in a row; if you need to add more information, and no one else has posted in the thread since your most recent submission, use the edit button.

[Sleet]

Tackin' it to the ban.

Fixed~

[Psykeout]

Tackin' it to the ban.

Fixed~

No one word responses, Sleet.

:B

[Sleet]

No minimodding, brah.

[KJOokami]

You mean that ~ isn't its own word yet? Lame.

[CaptainPea]

I don't even know what tildes are supposed to be for, much less what they accomplish when placed informally at the ends of sentences.

I also don't know how to pronounce their name. I assume it's essentially "tild", but I want it to be "tildy" because that'd be fun.

[IceKitsune]

I don't even know what tildes are supposed to be for, much less what they accomplish when placed informally at the ends of sentences.

I also don't know how to pronounce their name. I assume it's essentially "tild", but I want it to be "tildy" because that'd be fun.

Tildes are used to mean approximately as in "~30 minutes ago" its also used to show that two numbers are similar to each other. When used at the end of a sentence it means basically saying something in a singsongy voice.

[Sleet]

~ath.

Tildes as punctuation marks express a playful or singsong tone.

[KJOokami]

I'm fairly certain that it's pronounced "squiggly".

[Blue Braixen]

I'm fairly certain that it's pronounced "squiggly".

I'm afraid not. The official name for a ~ is in fact, "tilde." XP

[RandomGeekNamedBrent]

and I believe the pronunciation is "til-day"

[Seth]

I'm fairly certain that it's pronounced "squiggly".

My grandma says they called them squigglejiggs in the old country

[Wanderer]

~Squigglies? lol
Yeah I've always called them tildes and used them frequently~!
I don't even know when you are supposed to use them o_o

[CaptainPea]

According to yer le Wikipedia, it's either "tilda" as in "Matilda" or "tildy" as in what I said. Unless I'm misinterpreting the IPA.

[Ebly]

Please, do not make posts purely of an up tack, no matter how sarcastic your silence is.

oh i was so tempted to reply to this with just an up tack, but you're right that people shouldn't do that

and it would have been mean

⊥

Tackin' it to the man.

Mod Edit: Do not make single-image or one-word posts. Additionally, do not make multiple posts in a row; if you need to add more information, and no one else has posted in the thread since your most recent submission, use the edit button.

Oh I laughed so hard at this. Like, you'd think after three mods, two of which were global mods, pretty much said not to post just-up-tacks, you wouldn't post just an up tack. You'd think.

[RandomGeekNamedBrent]

as he said, he was tackin' it to the man, us being the man in this case.

[Zukio]

Psykeout: Hero of the People/Revolutionary

[Psykeout]

Til-days are a symbol for the Spanish language; they go over N's to make a "nyuh" sound instead of "nuh." It's pronounced til-day because in Spanish, E is pronounced "ay." It's on american keyboards to make people confused. But it DOES serve a purpose in Math (English math too), as the symbol for I believe either "approximately" or "similar too."

Oh I laughed so hard at this. Like, you'd think after three mods, two of which were global mods, pretty much said not to post just-up-tacks, you wouldn't post just an up tack. You'd think.

See, the joke was that I'm disobeying the rule you just told us to follow. But I added "tackin' it to the man," So the only actual post rule I broke was not to double post, because my message was more than one word. But the joke doesn't work if I put them in the same post, because then I didn't break the rule you told me to follow.

Petty rebellion as humor!

But I'm pretty sure you understand that, because it made you laugh so hard. It's quite customary for people to commend my amazingousity

[Ebly]

i'm not even going to dignify that with a response beyond "i'm not even going to dignify that with a response beyond [...]"

[The Grey Wolverine]

See, the joke was that I'm disobeying the rule you just told us to follow. But I added "tackin' it to the man," So the only actual post rule I broke was not to double post, because my message was more than one word. But the joke doesn't work if I put them in the same post, because then I didn't break the rule you told me to follow.

Petty rebellion as humor!

But I'm pretty sure you understand that, because it made you laugh so hard. It's quite customary for people to commend my amazingousity

I can only response to that with Almondjoys.

I'm fairly certain that it's pronounced "squiggly".

My grandma says they called them squigglejiggs in the old country

I'm going to start calling ~ squigglejiggs from now on.

[CaptainPea]

Til-days are a symbol for the Spanish language; they go over N's to make a "nyuh" sound instead of "nuh." It's pronounced til-day because in Spanish, E is pronounced "ay." It's on american keyboards to make people confused. But it DOES serve a purpose in Math (English math too), as the symbol for I believe either "approximately" or "similar too."

But it doesn't automatically add the accent on top of the letter where it goes, so the key isn't even helpful in writing Spanish; it's just there.

I've always used ≈ to indicate "approximately", and they taught us to use ≅ for geometric similarity.
*shrug*

[Ebly]

ñ, yes, but what about õ and ã

Hmmmmmmmmmmm?

[Psykeout]

≈

I always thought that that was for congruencey.

Chrome is not giving me a spell check for congruencey but it is at least helpful enough to tell me that it doesn't think that's how I spell it.

Well how do you spell it Chrome
How bout you stop whining about my spelling and start being a little more helpful.

[KJOokami]

Clearly umlaut are the superior diacritic of language accentation.

[CaptainPea]

≈

I always thought that that was for congruencey.

Chrome is not giving me a spell check for congruencey but it is at least helpful enough to tell me that it doesn't think that's how I spell it.

Well how do you spell it Chrome
How bout you stop whining about my spelling and start being a little more helpful.

Chrome just doesn't think congruency is a word, but for the record it's "congruency". To be fair, it's kind of redundant with "congruence", but it should still be in their dictionary.

Maybe that was for congruence and we used something else for similarity. I don't remember; it's been a couple years since geometry and we haven't come back to review most of it.

Clearly umlaut are the superior diacritic of language accentation.

I can't remember for the life of me what that's called in French because I always just call it "the one in maïs"
Also the most fun name is "circumflex".

[Ebly]

i disagree

because the umlaut is very specific

diaeresis, however...

[Seth]

I think I'm going to legally change my name and add an umlaut over the S

[CaptainPea]

I think I'm going to legally change my name and add an umlaut over the S

I'm just going to indiscriminately add random marks to every letter of my name
at least three on each

[Seth]

I think I'm going to legally change my name and add an umlaut over the S

I'm just going to indiscriminately add random marks to every letter of my name
at least three on each

proper usage be darned my name will have pizzaz!!!!

[Ebly]

I think I'm going to legally change my name and add an umlaut over the S

that is impossible, what would it do to the sound, it wouldn't even be an umlaut there




or are you making a nod to Spinal Tap's n

[KJOokami]

Pfff. It doesn't need to change the sound. The Germans just use them to make their letters look cooler, right?

[Seth]

Pfff. It doesn't need to change the sound. The Germans just use them to make their letters look cooler, right?

that's what they taught us in Gemran class

I think I'm going to legally change my name and add an umlaut over the S

that is impossible, what would it do to the sound, it wouldn't even be an umlaut there




or are you making a nod to Spinal Tap's n

I'm just trying to stick it to the german language

[sonic id furreh!!!]

i wanna learn German so when i get mad i can yell at people in german and scare the crap outta them :3

[Randomextra]

i wanna learn German so when i get mad i can yell at people in german and scare the crap outta them :3

That sounds like the best idea ever