The oblique stroke: renaming slash

sopraniste sopraniste at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 15 16:59:00 UTC 2005



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

Although, there was a Terry Pratchett novel that refers to sex and
then qualifies it: "Not in the... count the legs and divide by two
sense" (The quotation is approximate, I don't have the book with me,
but it captures the sentiment. It's from the VERY beginning of Equal
Rites.)

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