someone who knows stuff about the Japanese language: what exactly is meant to be conveyed by a title that says something like "Title of Thing ~More Title~"? it seems very common in japanese music titles

oh yeah @typhlosion you're learning japanese, can you explain this thing?

@Felthry can you give an example?

@typhlosion there's an event in the game i'm playing a translation hack of titled "追求　～風見を逮捕できない理由～"

@typhlosion but we also see it in music a lot, like on the Tales of the Abyss soundtrack there's a track called "A Song ~Song By Tear~"

@Felthry @typhlosion sounds like a subtitle, like English language songs would have in brackets, e.g. "Breathe (In the Air)" or "Helena (So Long & Goodnight)"

@noiob @typhlosion okay I agree with you but your use of the word brackets to mean parentheses is bugging me |3

@Felthry @typhlosion I'm ESL and a parenthesis is a bracket

@noiob @typhlosion to us, it's (parentheses) [brackets] and {braces}

@Felthry @typhlosion Wikipedia says it's an American thing to consider parentheses and brackets a separate thing, and I technically learnt Oxford English in school

@noiob @typhlosion Is it really? We had no idea.

@Felthry @typhlosion

In American usage, parentheses are usually considered separate from other brackets, and calling them "brackets" is unusual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#Parenthesis