Miscellany № 60: the secret life of the tilde

I am guilty of having somewhat ignored the tilde, or ‘~’, here at Shady Characters. Having just read Joseph Bernstein’s excellent, recent BuzzFeed article on the subject of “The Hidden Language of the ~Tilde~”,[1] however, I thought I’d take a fresh look at this quirky sun-dried hyphen. Joseph opens his article with a lament: Last […]