Editing Talk:2619: Crêpe

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You can almost make the same weird circumflex by using combining diacritics. e, then inverted breve then circumflex. Doesn't seem to render properly with firefox at least --> ȇ̂ [[Special:Contributions/172.70.114.241|172.70.114.241]] 14:20, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
: U+2372 is a caret with a tilde through it: ⍲ [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.251|108.162.245.251]] 14:45, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
:: Would you like a crē̂pe? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.32|162.158.63.32]] 20:05, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
:: I looked at a few more unicode things. I'm not too familiar with unicode; there are a few more down curves I think, but I didn't see any way to make it just like the image. I think wiki markup or an embedded image would probably do this best, and may be worthwhile if anybody's excited. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.32|162.158.63.32]] 20:05, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
::: The closest I can find is 🢕, which may render okay on desktop but not mobile as <table style="display: inline-table; line-height: 0.5em; vertical-align: 0.85em;"><tr><td style="font-size: 75%; text-align: center;">🢕&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td>crepe</td></tr></table> given that terrible table/css hackery that you'll regret looking at if you find this comment in wikitext. Someone with the patience to codepen up a three cell-tall table with varying font-size:s and line-height:s can probably overlay ∧ and ^ to get the exact shape, but I doubt it would be robustly cross-platform, and of course certainly not across arbitrary fonts, or worse, on mobile because we can't control viewport scaling in wikitext, because that's a head/meta tag.  [[Special:Contributions/172.69.33.25|172.69.33.25]] 21:09, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
::::....does a {{w|Template:Ruby|ruby}} tag work in {{w|Template:Ruby-ja|wikicode}}?? because i see ''table'' in there and thats scary. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.114.241|172.70.114.241]] 14:52, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
::::: Presumably you tried it. Neither the template or the <nowiki><ruby></nowiki> tag works. Whoever came up with the stroke/fill approach had the right idea: <table style="display: inline-table; line-height: 0.1em; vertical-align: 0.65em;"><tr><td style="font-size: 20%; text-align: center;"><span style="text-fill-color: transparent; text-stroke: 0.5pt currentColor; -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke: 0.5pt currentColor;">⮝&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></td></tr><tr><td>crepe</td></tr></table> [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.36|172.70.211.36]] 00:52, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

: Is it possible to vertically stretch a character?  A combination of a "regular" circumflex and a vertically-stretched circumflex might work. [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 18:41, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
:: I didn't realise it was actually two circumflexes of different heights. This is pretty visible in the new picture. There might be a taller or shorter circumflex somewhere in unicode, but I think stretching would take mathml or something dunno. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.65|172.70.110.65]] 23:38, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

I think the circumflex is not an "A" but more of a split-and-stretched delta, or an arrowhead. Maybe show a zoom-in of the circumflex (obviously from the 2x image) in the explanation? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.163|108.162.221.163]] 14:47, 13 May 2022 (UTC)Bumpf
: Also, i noticed there are weird white dots past the corners of the border. They are even more visible in the 2x! [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.163|108.162.221.163]] 14:50, 13 May 2022 (UTC)Bumpf
: A chevron, perchance? --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.50.15|172.68.50.15]] 14:52, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Is it not also a play on "weird flex but OK"? https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/weird-flex-but-okay/ {{unsigned ip|108.162.241.11}}

IPA would be appreciated {{unsigned ip|172.70.110.241}}
: I would say the accepted online versions seem to work well for me:
:* US pronunciation: /kɹeɪp/ ("krayp")
:* UK possibilities: /kɹɛp/, /kɹeɪp/ ("krep" or "krayp")
:** For me, I'd use the former for food (e.g. "Crêpes Suzette") as a fairly direct loan from French,
:** But I'd say the latter for paper (the crinkly-tissue stuff)
:* Fr pronunciation: /kʁɛp/ ("krep", but with that funny French 'r'! ;) )
: YMMV, and possibly different regional British accents (or just who they learnt the terms from) might vary quite wildly. I'm not sure the average Brit truly understand French (typographic) accents. Though possibly we are more inclined to at least try ''something'' than your average American. :p [[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.209|172.69.79.209]] 21:18, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
:: In British English it's pronounced 'pancake'. ;o) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.248|162.158.158.248]] 08:19, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

It doesn't really look like an "A".  It's more a hollow outline of a circumflex.  You can see it more clearly in the 2x version. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.54.247|172.70.54.247]] 19:28, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

The crêpe itself is also in the shape of an accent. -JT {{unsigned ip|162.158.126.55}}

Is this a reference to the vandalism attacks? "crap" and "crêpe" are somewhat similar. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.178.27|172.70.178.27]] 23:16, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
:There tends to be no acknowledgement at all that Randall takes any notice of what goes on here at the moment. Despite the occasional suspicion that he deliberarely Nerd Snipes us with a comic that is particularly designe to be hard to document 'normally'. I'd say it's a pure co-inky-dink, personally. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.223|172.69.79.223]] 18:55, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
::I admit I have just such a slight suspicion for this very comic. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.33.25|172.69.33.25]] 21:11, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
If the circumflex is interpreted as a small capital A, it could be considered a form of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_character ruby text], phonetic characters used to transcribe logographic characters. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.189.38|172.68.189.38]] 19:21, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Am I the only one who thought it is supposed to be some kind of combination of the 3 french accents? one aigu ´ and one grave `above a circonflexe ^ (in many fonts the first two are significantly steeper in my experience)? [[Special:Contributions/172.68.50.91|172.68.50.91]] 14:28, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

== dots over letters ==

If, as the current version suggests, a diuretic is in fact a medicine to promote urin excretion, the title text might also refer to the practice of writing one's name in snow using urin and, having diurtetic-induced spare writing fuel, being forced to add diacritic symbols.{{unsigned ip|162.158.90.177|22:07, 16 May 2022}}

The diaeresis is not the same as the umlaut like the description suggests. They're different symbols with different purposes that just happen to look the same. The diaeresis is used to indicate a syllable break before the vowel it's placed on (e.g. naïve), and the umlaut modifies the sound of the vowel it's placed on (e.g. Übermensch). (For clarity, the paragraph above wasn't written by me, it just lacks a signature)[[Special:Contributions/172.68.50.91|172.68.50.91]] 04:20, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
:(Regarding your point on paragraphs, yes, people are being sloppy with signing - or not signing - I'm inserting the relevent placeholder for readability. No further comment as to the two-dots or anything, but piping up rather than just sneaking in and adding this thing silently. And perhaps removing your now unnecessary 'clarification', which would restore balance but ruder to do than going all meta like this!) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.211|172.70.90.211]] 08:15, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

== Hear the orthography ==

Another related joke: --[[User:ColorfulGalaxy|ColorfulGalaxy]] ([[User talk:ColorfulGalaxy|talk]]) 08:34, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

: "Knock knock" "Who's there?" "Triangle" "Triangle who" "It's Triangle WHO. Notice the capitalization."