Pet peeve #4482: backslash
This is a slash: /
This is a backslash: \
They are not the same thing. The general computer user hasn't had to use backslashes for ten years. Forward slashes are used in web addresses, backslashes are locations inside your computer. So can television news anchors, who should really be smarter than this, stop calling slashes backslashes when they give web addresses? They look like idiots. And they seem to get it wrong ten times as frequently as they get it right.
While we're on the subject of knowing better, stop saying "there is a disconnect." There's no such thing as a disconnect. Disconnect is a verb. The word you're looking for is "disconnection."
Cranky today.
This is a backslash: \
They are not the same thing. The general computer user hasn't had to use backslashes for ten years. Forward slashes are used in web addresses, backslashes are locations inside your computer. So can television news anchors, who should really be smarter than this, stop calling slashes backslashes when they give web addresses? They look like idiots. And they seem to get it wrong ten times as frequently as they get it right.
While we're on the subject of knowing better, stop saying "there is a disconnect." There's no such thing as a disconnect. Disconnect is a verb. The word you're looking for is "disconnection."
Cranky today.
Labels: pet peeves
posted by Andrew Hamm @ 3:15 PM
3 Comments:
At 9/02/2008 7:03 PM ,
Joey Fanelli said...
Silly MS-DOS.
At 9/04/2008 8:32 AM ,
Anonymous said...
Holy anal retentive batman.
Disconnect at dictionary dot com
n. (dĭs'kə-někt')
A lack of connection; a disparity: "There is a cosmic disconnect between what the voters want and what the party of the corporate interests can give them" (Bob Herbert).
At 9/04/2008 2:47 PM ,
Andrew Hamm said...
"And I don't caaaaaare how they spell thiiiiiings on the interneeeeet!"
[/strong bad]
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