Is the word 'stroke' understood, in meaning one of these / \? [closed]

All the meanings of the word 'slash', other than an oblique forward or backward stroke are either violent or obscene. They include cuts made with swords, lashing with a whip, cutting maliciously car tyres with a knife, and in Britain the act of male urination (I have never heard it applied to a female).

Hence I find the word when used in its now everyday sense of a small inoffensive printed stroke (which is American in origin) unpleasantly resonant. I tend therefore to use the time-honoured British nomenclature of stroke, forward stroke, and backward stroke. Does everyone understand that?

Solution 1:

stroke

strōk/

noun: stroke; plural noun: strokes

1. an act of hitting or striking someone or something; a blow. "he received three strokes of the cane"

   synonyms: blow, hit, thump, punch, slap, smack, cuff, knock;

(from Google)

Your replacement word is just as violent as the word you wish to replace. As a Canadian I can tell you that I would find it difficult to understand you if you constantly referred to / as stroke.