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Anon can't sleep (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] toynbee 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What are "implication arrows"?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

> implying you don't know what an implication arrow is

it's one of these: >

[–] toynbee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do they imply?

I know that these stories are often accused of being fake, but I guess I don't understand the context of the response. It seems like the responder is saying "go to the doctor regardless of whether you actually have a problem requiring a doctor." Which I guess could be good advice in some circumstances, but ... Maybe I'm just taking things too literally.

Thanks for the answer!

[–] DogWater 4 points 2 months ago

I think it's that people understand that 99% of green text stories are not real, so the reply is just saying yo if this is real, go to a doc.

Maybe I'm wrong tho

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The anon got it wrong. These are ">" or "greater than" symbols, not arrows, although they look like arrowheads. They are used to signal a quote, which makes the text green on 4chan or inside a quote block on other platforms. In 4chan culture, the resulting greentext is not a quote, it has a meaning of its own.

The actual implication arrow, used in mathematical logic for statements like "if A, then B" or "A implies B", is "⇒" or "rightwards double arrow" in Unicode. Using ASCII characters, it can be written as "=>".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

>implying this is real

[–] toynbee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I ... See.

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's just how a quote reply works on 4chan but the meaning has expanded.

Edit: as in, instead of quoting the actual comment I reply to, I summarize it as "implying ____"