Seems like the whole world is going forward. I don’t just mean the latest business-speak for ‘in the future’. I am talking about the expression ‘forward slash’ when quoting a URL.
I don’t mind that the British word ‘stroke’ or ‘oblique stroke’ has universally been replaced by the American word ‘slash’. But not ‘forward slash’, please!
It’s bad enough that media presenters and advertisers say ‘logon to …’ when they mean ‘visit …’ a website. Why not just say ‘slash’? You don’t say ‘I was in my car, driving forwards’, do you?
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