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Apparently, everyone now says "backslash" when they really mean "slash." I guess the lure of such a cool sounding word is too powerful to resist, but \ is rarely used in web addresses and NEVER when someone tells me to type one.

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

/ slash
\ backslash

windows is wrong.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

mmmm Windows slash

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link

/ oblique but no-one ever says that any more either, they say forward slash. Even when it's nothing to do with URLs.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

http://photos.signonsandiego.com/gallery/albums/040208gram/slash.sized.jpg
don't worry, we got another one coming real soon...

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

- horizontal slash
| vertical slash
+ double slash
= double horizontal slash
# quadruple slash

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

You forgot the tri-slash (?).

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmmm. I guess you didn't.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

! bang

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Backslash is wack. (literally, that's what people call it... "wack")

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

So, if I want to talk about wacking and banging I just type \ing and !ing

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

This is probably the only time I will ever get to use this cool code, so...
Last night I felt like !ing, but my partner for that sort of thing wasn't able. To my delight she \ed me off!

― Unfortunate Prankster (Unfortunate Prankster), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I wonder why forward slash hasn't been reduced to foreslash. It's less of a mouthful.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

too close to foreskin

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

the backslash begins here /

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I wonder why forward slash hasn't been reduced to foreslash. It's less of a mouthful.

Because its proper name is 'slash', which is even less of a mouthful.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link

"foreslash" = getting in the mood by reading about Capt. Picard getting a handjob?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link

"foreslash" sounds too much like what the moyl does at the bris.

(I guess milo got there first)

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

tri-slash ?

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link

shit. didn't understand it. howabout this ±

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Genesis P-Orridge just fell down!

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Backslash = Backtrash - don't pick it up! And don't pick up Genesis P-Orridge either.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Backslash may be on the wane, but BACKFAT is waxing quite nicely.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link

tri-slash ?
One of those "does not equal" symbols. The = with the slash through it.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 23 May 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link

One of those "does not equal" symbols. The = with the slash through it.

i tried it, but it would't come through into the html (and couldn't find a special character for it)

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 23 May 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Hence my random question marks upthread. That's all that came through when I entered the "does not equal" symbol thingy.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah ha! I give you.... http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/1/continuous.4/eq3.gif

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Thermo Thinwall 1, HTML 2.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Virgule. Solidus.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link

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