@iris @LilahTovMoon What the hell are any of these for?

@Dangerous_beans @iris @LilahTovMoon for frog faces with large mouths

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Edit: ah it combines well, lol

@Dangerous_beans @iris @LilahTovMoon or little ones

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@f4grx @Dangerous_beans @iris @LilahTovMoon you have discovered the typographical representations of the German Breitmaulfrosch / Spitzmaulfrosch dichotomy, congrats!

@Dangerous_beans @iris I even forgot about the double oblique hyphen: ⸗

@LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans @iris
〜 wave dash
〰 wavy dash
〰️ wavier dash
➿ huevos dash

@catsalad @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans @iris huevos 🥚🥚 dash? 🤔

@LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans @iris

And let's throw in:

⊝ Circled dash
⑈ OCR #dash, apparently

@Dangerous_beans @iris @LilahTovMoon Not sure, but ⹀ is how you would hyphenate in handwriting (at last as taught in schools), which has the advantage over a hyphen of clearly not being originally hyphenated.

miss @Dangerous_beans , mr @iris , miss @LilahTovMoon : don't know about all of these but ‒ (U+2012 FIGURE DASH) is actually really nice as its ment for use within a number (ex the separator in phone numbers) . in fonts with same width digits , the figure dash should also have that same width . you may observe that "0‒1‒2" may look better spaced out than "0-1-2" (hyphen minus) , "0−1−2" (minus sign) or "0–1–2" (en–dash) , this of course depends on your font

@iris Likely for typesetting plural forms in German dictionary entries, e.g., „der Bogen (⸚)“ indicating the plural would be „die Bögen“.

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@chunshek @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans you know, that makes sense. I've even handwritten that but never typed it.

@chunshek @iris @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans I was quietly asking myself why a hyphen needs an umlaut and this makes so much sense.

@chunshek @iris @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans "for typesetting". Meanwhile, u+0308 Combining Diaeresis is crying quietly in the corner

@iris @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans German lexicography. See here:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E2%B8%9A

@deFractal @iris @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans German here. I have never seen it in any German dictionaries, although it's nice to know that we could make use of it there.

To me, the umlaut hyphen much rather represents both the median German facial expression and median German emotional state. But what do I know ⸚

@metaphil @iris @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans I’m no expert. I just pasted the character into a couple search boxes.

@deFractal absolutely fine. it totally looks like some „Tschörman Efficiency” thing we would invent if i'd hadn't been invented yet 😅

@iris @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans something to do with German dictionaries. To indicate if an umlaut should be added if the word is hyphenated there?

@drj @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans other replies got it -- it's a way to abbreviate pluralization rules, where the plural of a noun takes an umlaut the singular didn't have, e.g. Tochter (sgl) / Töchter (pl)

@iris @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans alloys (i.e. me⃛täl hÿbrids)

@synec @iris @LilahTovMoon I've never encountered an alloy with a umlaut. Is this for fancy high tech alloys?

@Dangerous_beans @synec @iris @LilahTovMoon
High Tech Metal Alloy genres, where the guitars all have more than the usual number of strings, and the time signatures aren't always 4/4

@synec @iris @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans An umbrella for my letter a's

ca⃛tsa⃛l⃛a⃛d

@iris

⸚ means: "I am watching you intensely"

And in combination:

⸚≺ means "camera is rolling"
⸚≮ means "camera is off"

@LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans

@iris
Heavy Metal band names.
@LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans

@iris @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans it's an indication that your trolly dash has failed and all the contents are now on the floor....?

@iris @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans

Nostrils in frogs' faces.

@iris @LilahTovMoon Toffs who are a bit metal, e.g.: Cholmondeley⸚Featherstonehaugh

@iris must be the oldschool 😐, yes?

🤭

@iris@neuromatch.social @LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt @Dangerous_beans@aus.social

Making tiny faces