Ok, either I was asleep during English grammar lessons, but I've noticed a whole bunch of keyboard symbols, that I've never used.
Like this one ~
Apparently, called TILDE.
That's Spanish or Portugese, for wavy dash thing. Or title, depending on your knowledge of Hispanic languages.
In English though, it's used to mean Approximately or similar to.
Apparently I'm not the first one to ask this...
They have orange in their URL. Enough said.
Next we have the < and >
These are Guillemets. Not the band, or the bird.
If you didn't guess already, these are French.
For translated texts, where we don't actually know what the person is saying, writers make stuff up that sounds about right.
Or used for thoughts, rather than dialogue.
< But what if I'm telepathic? >
And finally we have the |
Also known as the vertical bar. Now, that one I could have guessed. It's the one left of Z. And may have two vertical half bars as its symbol. Just for the lolz, eh QWERTY.
It's used in maths. So not really important.
Unless you speak one of those fancy African languages
with the clicking sounds of the tongue. That, my friends symbolises those. Which we should totally incorporate in English for beat boxing dialogue.
You're welcome Language.
Endnote- Anyway know what this ¬ is used for? Apart from emoticons... I couldn't find that one out.
I enjoyed this.
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