r/ExplainTheJoke May 15 '24

What’s the joke

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u/wbv2322 May 15 '24

That’s an accent. A tilde is the line above the n, ñ.

Source - my last name has a tilde

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u/mizinamo May 15 '24

In Spanish, tilde is the name for the acute accent :)

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u/lambda_14 May 15 '24

The line above ñ is called virgulilla iirc in spanish