Backslash is a correct and commonly used term in written English.
It refers to the \ symbol that is typically found on computer keyboards. Here are a few examples of when you might use the word backslash in written English: 1. "To access the file, you will need to use the backslash key between the C and D buttons." 2. "The backslash is often used in coding to indicate a special character or command." 3. "The backslash is not commonly used in everyday typing, but it can be useful in certain circumstances." 4. "To escape the quotation marks, insert a backslash before them."
He also owns the domain names, meaning that by adding a backslash and the name of any town in the United States, he has a network of some 35,000 URLs.
Signs with a circle and backslash superimposed on the word "frack" are ubiquitous on lawns and porches in some towns, while placards in others proclaim, "I'm a friend of Marcellus".
My only real niggle was that the right-hand shift key is placed to the right of the directional arrows, meaning I kept hitting backslash while touch typing.
The rightward side of a line graph showing the drop-off in home prices in the United States is steeper than a typewritten backslash (bbc.co.uk).
In "How to Take Back Our Analog Brains" (Backslash, June 10), Matt Richtel discussed how computer technology was weakening our mental skills and offered some suggestions on how to reclaim them.
Steadman then uses a rule that makes the backslash transitive and derives that 'I.dislike' has the type S/NP, which takes a noun phrase (such as 'musicals') on its right an returns a sentence.
Much of the comedy comes from the introduction of Ludo Backslash, who is broadly based on German-Finnish internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and is played by Dustin Demri-Burns, one half of sketch duo Cardinal Burns.
Moss calls them Slash and Backslash.
Into this already frustrating set-up comes Dustin Demri-Burns (from sketch show Cardinal Burns) as non-specifically European super-hacker Ludo Backslash (in a fluorescent bomber jacket to denote "crazy"), who is on the run from various authorities for illegally file-sharing films.
And, in a common contemporary solution to accusations of racism, the Latin Americans – acted by Kayvan Novak and Yasmine Akram - are smarter and classier than the English characters: the targets of most of the gags are the egotism and cowardice of Hern and Ludo Backslash, an inane hacker also seeking asylum (played by Dustin Demri-Burns).
