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OT: what's the meaning of using ~ before a word, as in ~deciders?
by asymmetric 5y ago
OT: what's the meaning of using ~ before a word, as in ~deciders?
- abathur 5y agoHmm. This isn't something I'm doing terribly consciously, so I'm not sure if this will make sense: ~literally, it means something like "approximately". It would obviously break the sentence if it literally meant "I'm not sure what the approximately deciders would say", so in this case I'm using it more to indicate some uncertainty about the term--that the word-choice is an approximation. I'm not sure if this use is ~common or me-idiomatic.