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December 26th 2004, 03:19 PM
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Glenn, why are you using grave accents as apostrophes and backslashes as slashes?

You have the apostrophe (') right to the right of your æ key (on the Norwegian keyboard, anyway). Right below the asterisk (*). It is used like so:

"I don't think we would ..."

You have the slash (/) above the seven (7). It's used like so:

"... I/we will believe him ..."

The grave accent is, afaik, never used in English. In Norwegian, there's a few words, such as "première", which uses it.

The backslash has no purpose in language, and its only purpose is as the path delimiter in DOS/Windows and as the escape character in certain programming languages. Please learn this, man. It bothers me.