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That is what I was talking about; pretty good example, except the missing protocol and "://".

I'm remembering the difficulty of explaining what is a forward slash and what is a backward slash. After all, they both lean forward - one leads with its feet, the other with its head. It doesn't help if your contact is using a different keyboard from you. You have to keep asking them to read it back to you.

I still have to do this occasionally; it feels like swimming through treakle.

Edit: Oh, and then there's people who don't know what "colon" means. And "hash" and "pound" have different meanings depending where you are. At least in this country, punctuation is less and less emphasised. I had to teach my kids to punctutate myself, and I suspect I'm the only person they use punctuation for.



Just hope you never need to get someone over the phone to visit slashdot


Why would I do that? :-)


for the lulz? it's almost like one of those old skool prank caller kind of bits. you could drive someone batty if you could hold it together long enough


> After all, they both lean forward - one leads with its feet, the other with its head.

Leading with one's feet is commonly known as leaning backward.




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