Synecdoche ( @Synecdoche@feddit.de ) to TechnologyEnglish · 2 years agoTwitter is now Xwww.twitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square120linkfedilinkarrow-up1235
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minus-square Master ( @Master@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoIf you remember back to your birthday cards as a kid when your loved ones put XOXO in the card… X is kisses. So Xing is pronounced Kissing!
minus-square wildncrazyguy ( @wildncrazyguy@kbin.social ) linkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 years agoDon’t tweet it, just exit.
minus-square andrai ( @andrai@feddit.de ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoThe X isn’t kisses. The X stand for closes eyes and the O is an open mouth, hence XO = kiss emote and XOXO is the plural
minus-square dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 years agoDoesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.
minus-square Burnt ( @Burnt@lemmy.one ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 years agoThat was always my understanding of it.
minus-square andrai ( @andrai@feddit.de ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoYeah, you are right. Guess we used it wrong in school.
minus-square Vashti ( @vashti@feddit.uk ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 years agoYou’re interpreting a much older shorthand with online emoticon rules. XO is a closed-eye open-mouth emoticon, but XOXO has been “hugs and kisses” for long enough to have been used when people wrote letters by hand.
minus-square linuxduck ( @linuxduck@nerdly.dev ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoYeah that’s what I grew up learning and my mom taught me that x is kisses o is hugs. Til that it’s seen and way!
minus-square Silent-G ( @silent_g@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoThat never made sense to me. X is the shape of two people hugging and O is the shape of pursed lips.
minus-square dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoYeah I don’t get it either, but it’s been that way for so long that we as a society probably stopped questioning it.
If you remember back to your birthday cards as a kid when your loved ones put XOXO in the card… X is kisses.
So Xing is pronounced Kissing!
Don’t tweet it, just exit.
The X isn’t kisses. The X stand for closes eyes and the O is an open mouth, hence XO = kiss emote and XOXO is the plural
Doesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.
That was always my understanding of it.
Yeah, you are right. Guess we used it wrong in school.
You’re interpreting a much older shorthand with online emoticon rules. XO is a closed-eye open-mouth emoticon, but XOXO has been “hugs and kisses” for long enough to have been used when people wrote letters by hand.
Yeah that’s what I grew up learning and my mom taught me that x is kisses o is hugs. Til that it’s seen and way!
That never made sense to me. X is the shape of two people hugging and O is the shape of pursed lips.
Yeah I don’t get it either, but it’s been that way for so long that we as a society probably stopped questioning it.