If I'm helping someone over the phone, I usually end up describing the slashes as "bottom left to top right" or "top left to bottom right" because forward/backward slash is not common lingo for the average user. I learned it when escaping characters in C - backslash t for tab, backslash n for newline.
Even though I use the "spring forward, fall back" mnemonic successfully to figure out daylight savings time, I still think to myself that "spring back, fall forward" makes sense too.
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