Translingual

Punctuation mark

/ /

1. (linguistics) Encloses broad phonetic transcriptions.

   The second /l/ in the English word "little" is actually spoken [ɫ̩], not that people usually notice.

2. (Internet, text messaging) Encloses text that should be taken as italicized (used in contexts where true italics are unavailable)
   • 2010, "Simon Brooke", Re: SPOILER (stage 8) - days when you wish the stage was 5k longer.... (on newsgroup uk.rec.cycling.moderated)

     Yes, you /can/ win by sitting in the wheels consistently and never doing any work. But it isn't admirable.

Synonyms

• (faux italics): * *, _ _

Coordinate terms

• [ ] (encloses narrow phonetic transcriptions)
• 〈 〉 (encloses an orthographic representation)