2 Jul
2016
2 Jul
'16
7:09 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 07:44:09PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
Jacob Ritorto scripsit:
NPR did this on a national basis for many, many years.
khm
Does anyone besides me bristle at the term
"forward slash?" In my day
(although I'm under fifty), we called them slash and backslash. The M$
culture seems to encourage this redundant advective as normal parlance.
I encourage it, after hearing people say "Aitch tee tee pee, colon,
backslash, backslash, ...."