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10249949 No.10249949 [Reply] [Original]

How can you replicate the effect that the meme arrow (>) has using normal grammar?
I can't think of any way to say something like
>implying x
in English without it losing some of its tang.

>> No.10249952

>>10249949
I've been wondering about this too, its a useful rhetorical tool but I dont want to be associated with 4chan

>> No.10249957

>>10249949
"She was one of those people who believed ___"
"As if an absurdity such ___ were an everyday occurrence"
"By which he meant ___, as he was a man capable of harboring the most banal opinions"

I don't know man there are a thousand options

>> No.10250240

"Yeah, ________________."

>> No.10250277

>>10250240
Winner.

>> No.10250327

>Who are you quoting?