>implying this is real
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toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What are “implication arrows”?
can@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I … See.
Thank you.
can@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s just how quite a reply works on 4chan but the meaning has expanded.
clara@feddit.uk 2 months ago
> implying you don’t know what an implication arrow is
it’s one of these: >
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 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. On 4chan, 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”, is “⇒” or “rightwards double arrow” in Unicode. Using ASCII characters, it can be written as “=>”.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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@lemmy.world 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