The oblique stroke: renaming slash

[davewitley]

Tim Regan wrote:

> Wouldn't it have been better if
> the various communities involved had picked up the English name 
for '/'
> rather than the American? Somehow if it was called "oblique stroke
> fiction" it would conjure up far more sympathetic connotations than
> "slash fiction", which sounds like something from a horror movie.

This whole topic has a "don't go there feel" about it.

"Do you prefer to slash forward or back?"

"I can slash both ways as long as there's plenty of oblique 
stroking."

etc.

David, who thinks it should be called "divide by" fiction...