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What on earth is "~" used for?

I've never had to use it before. I was just wondering what its used for, and what it's called.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    It's called a tilde... I think.

    It's used mostly in the Spanish letter n (But with the tilde on top of the n)

    This thing right here; ñ

  • anicet
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    It is called a tilde and is used as an accent mark often in Spanish.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's called a 'tilde'...

    In Spanish it make the 'n' sound like a 'ny' (as in onion).....

    Espanol sounds like it is written but Español sounds like espanyol.

    In Portuguese it makes the vowels sound nasal... as in não, confusões etc.

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  • 1 decade ago

    ~~~<====8

    Source(s): that
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    8====D~ ~

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    ~It makes things look fancy~

    ~I always imagine sentences like this mean~

    ~You have to speak with a British accent~

  • its an accent in some languages, and its called a tilde(Spanish).

  • 1 decade ago

    it`s called a tilde key its used to make squiggly lines

    kiss me :D~~~~

  • Nick
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    It means "congruent" in Geometry.

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