This is a thread for people who just want to type the word 'piñata' a lot of times but don't really have much to say in the Piñata Tracker or the official Piñata Madness threads.

Piñata away.

Piñata! :)

I have to copy-paste it because I don't know how to make my keyboard spit out the ñ, and also because I don't want to irritate my wife by typing "pinata".

Don't you guys have tildes in US keyboards? I'm pretty sure I've come across a few DOS games set to US keyboard layouts and I remember there being a tilde (~) key. Here in Portugal our keyboards don't have the character 'ñ', either, but we just input the tilde before typing a regular 'n' and it appears. :P It's exactly the same way we have to type à á â ã, é ê, í, ó ô õ or ú (these are the only diacritics in European Portuguese).

Either way, sorry you had to type 'piñata' and probably annoyed your wife... :(

Piñata!

Piñata, piñata! Your belly full of treats,
I gotta, I gotta , try one more time to beat
the odds of getting something I don't already have,
but oh, how I hope, the one I get's not bad.

If you like Piñatas, and getting caught in the rain
If you´re not into yoga, if you have half a brain
If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape
I´m the love that you´ve looked for, write to me*, and escape




*PMs will not be answered. It's just a song.

Pińata!

(sorry, we have only "Ń" in polish keyboards) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Pi~nata!
...nope. =)

On U.S. keyboards, the couple characters that could be diacritics can't actually be used as such (except, perhaps, in certain programs?). I'm not really sure what use " ` " (grave accent) is in common English as a stand-alone character, to be honest, and the only things I've ever seen " ~ " used for are an informal abbreviation for "approximately", and a fancy separator.

The only ways to add characters with diacritics on such keyboards are copying & pasting (that's one of the things the Character Map is for in Windows, though it's often quicker just to search online for something to copy), and using "Alt codes" (which means you have to either know or look up the code[s] in question...and there's a separate code for each case of each letter with each different diacritic).

They're also used in some programming languages.

In shell script, for example, "`" is used to indicate that the command contained within the backticks should be executed and inserted into the middle of the command.

In Python and C, "~" means to take the one's complement of an integer (in other words, flip every bit). In C++, "~" also indicates a destructor.

(Programming languages also use other uncommon characters, such as "[", "}", "#", and "&".)

Pinata is acceptable, too. As long as it's still fun to type!

Piñata BUMP!
A band I listen too, 50 Foot Wave, fronted by Kristin Hersh, often abbreviate their name as L'~ (L being the Roman numeral for 50).

Maybe not as interesting as discussing programming languages, but just as random and off-topic!

PIÑATA!!!

The most correct way to write it would be:

¡Piñata!

¡Ah! The wonders of having a spanish keyboard... :D

You're right, but we don't have upside-down exclamation/question marks, here, I'd have to either copy-paste it or know the unicode number for it -- which I don't. Still, here you have a proper copy-pasted

¡Piñata!

Show-off...

May the Piñata be with you!