What's "stroke buffling"?

[svetlana14]

What's "stroke buffling" there at 04:04 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqq4ESfrOJY&t=4s]? Does buffling as an adjective do define stroke? What is the meaning of that phrase?

 

[probus]

Stroke is the name of this symbol: /. James is using it instead of saying the clumsy and ambiguous"and/or".

By the way, it's baffling, not buffling.

 

[Tdol]

Is stroke common your side of the pond? I'd call the symbol / slash.

 

[probus]

No. We too would generally call the symbol a slash, but James O'Brien said stroke and I'm nearly certain he meant /.

 

[Skrej]

FYI, Svetlana (and anyone else linking to Youtube clips), you can conveniently link directly to the exact time in the video very simply.

Go to the relevant point in the video (it's a good idea to start a few seconds earlier than the actual time in question), pause the video, right-click on the timeline, and select "copy video URL at current time".

Then use that as your hyperlink address. For example, here's the same video starting just a few seconds before the speech in question. It just saves everyone the trouble of skipping to the point in question.

 

[Rover_KE]

I did not know that, Skrej. Thanks for the tutorial.