Description : What's the use or meaning of Slash _ insert word _ Slash e.g /sky/?
Last Answer : back in the day of plaintext only media, we'd sometimes use /this/ to mean this (that is, in Italics). Similarly, we used underscores (these things: _ ) surrounding a word to mean underlined . But ... (like here on Fluther, for example) allow you to format your text, so such things are not needed.