Talk:Slash (punctuation)

What's the plural of solidus? Solidii (like the coin)? Solidi [1]. Primetime 17:48, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Slashification

Why is the Solidus slashified? In the moment there are inconsistencies all around due to this change. Pjacobi 19:22, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

See Talk:Solidus. All links to solidus should be fixed now to point to slash (punctuation) Nohat 19:42, 2004 Jul 9 (UTC)

"Contrariwise, the form with a hyphen, 7-8 May, would refer to the two-day period"—do you really really mean hyphen (in which case, please explain why), or did you confuse it with en dash? Kwantus 2005 June 28 14:33 (UTC)

Well, with a typewriter there's only the hyphen, so that's what I wrote. All right, I don't know whether typographers would use an en dash. So wouldn't someone find out? --Sobolewski 17:25, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash, en-dash is used to indicate a closed range.

Banned and/or

I don't know the details, but this anecdotal reference implies that the use of and/or was banned outright in the state, when much more likely it was banned for internal uses by the governing body in legislation, etc. Snopes.com anyone? 70.145.102.253 06:29, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Solidus vs Virgule in Programming

The programming section claims that the solidus is used in programming in a variety of ways, but the english section explains that what we have on the keyboard is really a virgule. But then, the ISO character standards with which I'm familiar also refer to the keyboard character '/' as a "solidus". So, which is it, or are we doomed by the poor input devices of the time to lose this distinction?

British usage?

'In the UK, the usual term for the mark is an oblique'. I have lived in Britain all my life and never heard this term. Any opinions?Rossheth

I have lived in Britain my whole life and I have never heard of this term before. I'll just go and remove it, as it is clearly not at all widely used. Ed 17:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, isn’t the usual term stroke? (That fucked me up when I was watching “Brazil.”) Shouldn’t that be in the first sentence (moreso than division sign).

Whatever; fuck it. I’m being bold. Wiki Wikardo 18:06, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I concur. I've been here all my life and it was always called a 'stroke' before the internet. Now it seems that the usual blind obedience of calling it a slash - particularly a 'forward slash' - is rife. I suspect it's just another Americanism that's seeped into the language.

Whack Whack

I don't believe this is correct. The origin of "Whack" was an alternate name for back-slash, as opposed to saying back-slash. Why come up with an alternate name that isn't easier to say for slash?_mich

Yes, I've heard "whack" used in UNC paths (pronouncing \\server\share as "whack whack server whack share"), but I've never heard it used after the protocol in a URL. 2006-06-20

Unicode slash in dates?

What Unicode code is appropriate for slashes in dates? Are they solidi or virguli?

Name

There's a name at the bottom of the page. It should be removed