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Why do people always confuse them?

slash = /

backslash = \

I'm getting sick of everyone who mixes them up, don't you? For the last time, people: Internet addresses do not have backslashes in them. They have "forward" slashes in them.

There, I'm done.
 
It's not a big ask really. I hate the way people don't understand what a hyphen is.
 
Yeah. It's direction in the same way English is. Forward > and backward<. It then follows that "backslash" would be \. Simple.

And Giancarlo doesn't mind anything. Nothing bothers him except people who are bothered by things.
 
Originally posted by pupik
Why do people always confuse them?

slash = /

backslash = \

I'm getting sick of everyone who mixes them up, don't you? For the last time, people: Internet addresses do not have backslashes in them. They have "forward" slashes in them.

There, I'm done.
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You work at a car dealer, too. When I was giving my last car salesman an email address he actually wrote out the word "at".
 
The thing that annoys me more is the utter failure of the general public to understand how apostrophes are used.
 
Originally posted by milefile
And Giancarlo doesn't mind anything. Nothing bothers him except people who are bothered by things.
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You never cease to be predictable.

:)
 
Originally posted by Rat Bastid
>ahem< Hyphen.
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:lol: Good shout!

Neon_Duke: Don't even get me started on apostrophes. Even when you explain it to some people, they still don't get it!
 
Oh, apostrophes are the worst! It's terrible how people don't know the difference between "its" and "it's"... when we do our cute little proof reading stuff in English class, that's one of the most common errors I find.

I do have one question for you guys though:

Is it people's or peoples'? To me, it would logically be the latter since people implies more than one person, but I've had teachers tell me that people is used in a singular sense, so you use the former. Anybody know which is correct?
 
Well from my knowledge, you can use peoples too, but only when you are calling a group of people.

You can say... This group of people are agressive, and that group is also agressive. From that, you can say "These groups of peoples are agressive."(don't mind my spelling right now)
 
Well, I know that, but I'm wondering how to properly use the apostrophe when talking about possession for a group of people.
 
I believe that that it honestly matters how the word is used in a sentence. For instance, when referring to communism, it is "people's", but, you could say that something referred to all of the peoples in the world. And then later refer back to that item as the "peoples'."
 
mmm, you're both wrong...there is no proper use of the word peoples, however you say it, unless yo want ta use poetic licenze, then there ain't (is that an apostrohe? oh, and you should say an apostophe, not a apostophe)..:odd:
 

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