Talk:2619: Crêpe

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 172.70.114.241 14:20, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

U+2372 is a caret with a tilde through it: ⍲ 108.162.245.251 14:45, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Would you like a crē̂pe? 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. 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

🢕

crepe

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. 172.69.33.25 21:09, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

....does a ruby tag work in wikicode?? because i see table in there and thats scary. 172.70.114.241 14:52, 15 May 2022 (UTC)Bumpf

Is it possible to vertically stretch a character? A combination of a "regular" circumflex and a vertically-stretched circumflex might work. 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. 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? 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! 108.162.221.163 14:50, 13 May 2022 (UTC)Bumpf

A chevron, perchance? --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/ 108.162.241.11 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

IPA would be appreciated 172.70.110.241 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

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 172.69.79.209 21:18, 13 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. 172.70.54.247 19:28, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

The crêpe itself is also in the shape of an accent. -JT 162.158.126.55 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Is this a reference to the vandalism attacks? "crap" and "crêpe" are somewhat similar. 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. 172.69.79.223 18:55, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

I admit I have just such a slight suspicion for this very comic. 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 ruby text, phonetic characters used to transcribe logographic characters. 172.68.189.38 19:21, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Whoever came up with the stroke/fill approach had the right idea:

⮝

crepe

172.70.211.36 08:00, 15 May 2022 (UTC)