Talk:Slash (punctuation)
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What's the plural of solidus? Solidii (like the coin)? Solidi [1]. Primetime 17:48, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] 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)
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash, en-dash is used to indicate a closed range.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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?
[edit] 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)
- 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)
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.
[edit] 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
[edit] Unicode slash in dates?
What Unicode code is appropriate for slashes in dates? Are they solidi or virguli?
[edit] Name
There's a name at the bottom of the page. It should be removed
[edit] Pre-decimal currency
"N.B. The raised-dot · or interpunct separating the units" ... "even a single dash"
. Azz i remember it, the units were separated with colons, so : £1:19:11.
Froggo_Zijgeb 03`11`2006_21:59.
[edit] Solidus distinction
It says that there's is a distinction, but doesn't explain it. Any ideas? 72.226.151.143 20:35, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
