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I've liked calling them Democrat and Republican slashes.

Both right and left leaning....

does that make the pipe | Independent?

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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/27/2006 06:12:34 PM:

-> Adam,
->
-> >> This is a slash:            /
-> >> This is a backslash:  \
->
-> That's interesting.  I was told and have always believed that it was the
-> other way round, i.e. "/" was a backslash because your pen moves
"backwards"
-> (top right to bottom left) from the direction of writing (left to right)
-> when you write it.


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