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8547337 No.8547337 [Reply] [Original]

When did > start meaning anything other than implying?

>> No.8547343

>>8547337
wonk t'nod i<

>> No.8547346

>>8547337
>When did > start meaning anything other than implying?
it also is used for quoting someone if you reply with their text highlighted.

also what does this have to do with literature?
(asge)

>> No.8547361

>>8547346
well I know that is how it's often used.
I want to know when that started.


Let's see... Okay. This has to do with literature because it involves an icon representative of quotation.


that's the best I can do.

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8547370

>>8547361
quotation came first.

this being the site that it is, irony is baked into everything, hence the
>implying