Friday, April 17, 2009

Slash!

I almost feel like I'm running out of punctuations to write about. however, i know that is not the case, because there are tons more that i am just not aware of. I was looking at my key board and saw the slash and decided it would be good to talk about the slash.
the slash is used to replace the hyphen or en dash to make a strong joint between words or phrases. and perhaps the most common is to replace the word "or"
for example, he/she, "the Hemingway/Faulkner generation", and also in many abbreviation's S/E,
O/O, EEB/CBA , R/C and in many others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)

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