Which way do you make your slashes?
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December 21st, 2008
I’m a righty and my slashes look like \. Am I backwords? I tend to do a lot of things like a lefty but I’m not really all that ambidextrous as far as writing goes.
Anyone else do things like this? Any one in here ambidextrous?
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I’m left handed, but mostly only for writing. My right hand is my dominant hand in sports though, and I also play a right handed guitar instead of a left handed one. I do my slashes like this /
I’m a righty and I do / because the word after / fits underneath it. This/this, that\that. Also / is a slash and \ is a backslash.
Another thing that tips me off is that / is way easier to get to on a keyboard than \, so that could mean that / is correct.
@queenz- I guess I could have specified the use of the slash. I mean when crossing something out, not when using it for writing. At work we have these little log thingies we use and slashes are often necessary. I am the only one who does my slashes like so \ and they always tell me I’m weird (we’re all righties)
Ohhhh. For crossing things out by hand, I do mine the same way you do!
I forward slash, and I’m right handed. For all purposes.
That was unintentionally naughty.
But on a related(?) note the ampersands I write by hand I do ‘backwards’. Usually, they’re done like a backwards ‘3’ and a | through them. I write mine as a normal three. :)
People have called me out on those before.
MrItty: Pssst…read krose1223’s comment. (Three up from you.)
What a question….what has become of Fluther? I make my slashes like this /.
this/that
he/she
and/or
I’m ambidextrous with the mouse ;D. But I am a full blood lefty. Can’t do ANYTHING with my right hand except move a mouse.
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