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?
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?