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> unsettling slash dehumanizing

As a tangent, it is fascinating to me that you would write out the "slash" instead of using the single character symbol.

Watching the evolution of the thing-a/thing-b construct from a shorthand used almost exclusively in online text, to something used in spoken conversation to explicitly convey a mix of several ideas has been really interesting.

I wonder if there are examples of this pre-internet, or a similar construct that has now fallen out of style?



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