Safire on fire

I've been trying to relax. I've been trying to accept that the language is ever-changing. I've been trying to accept that the distinctions between "lay" and "lie", "further" and "farther", and "was" and "were" are being eroded. I'm trying...

...but goddamnit, I'm having a really hard time getting over the fact that everyone says "backslash" when they mean "slash", just because it makes it sound more internetty. It's. A. Fucking. Slash.

In Michael's office, slashes are "strokes" and backslashes are "whacks". They are so juvenile.


...heh. Whacks.