On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Jacob Ritorto wrote:

> 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.

In my day, it was "slash" and "slosh" (you need to be Australian to 
understand).

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