~ — the tilde at the end of a word, for a sing-song tone: 'hello~', 'thanks~'. From anime fandom and Japanese texting into general use for anything said with a lilt. The record's entry for the punctuation that has a melody.
Spotted on a laminated sign in a chain café, Bristol, Feb this year. Tilde, in a headline font. A manager did this on purpose and I would like their name for the record.
For whoever reads this in ten years: Tilde arrived in 2005 and for about a month it was the only correct response to anything. Then it became a response to itself.
The record notes the tilde means 'I am saying this in a cute voice' and that no other character in the keyboard has ever been given a tone of voice by consensus.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
