I honestly can only conceptualize them as unix slash and windows slashhttps://twitter.com/nelhage/status/730458366456123394 …
The forward slash is the one you write in natural-language text & I assume people who write it know the motion they write it by.
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...well, I might be weird but I write "/" from top-right to bottom-left...
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That's irrelevant to my point: you know the motion you make to write a slash, and backslash is the opposite one.
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The "back" in backslash has nothing to do with left/right, just being backwards relative to a slash.
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Of course the "clarifying" word "forward" actually confuses things, because the "back" in backslash just means "reversed" slash.
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