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Fortunately, we have a good article on the meaning of a slash. I quote: ""The most common use is to replace the hyphen or en dash to make clear a strong joint between words or phrases, such as ""the Hemingway/Faulkner generation"". I don't think that Hemingway and Faulkner are the same person, or that Hemingway should be a redirect to Faulkner.  "