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 Synecdoche   ( @Synecdoche@feddit.de )  to TechnologyEnglish · 2 年前

Twitter is now X

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Twitter is now X

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 Synecdoche   ( @Synecdoche@feddit.de )  to TechnologyEnglish · 2 年前
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  •  Master   ( @Master@beehaw.org ) 
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    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!

    •  wildncrazyguy   ( @wildncrazyguy@kbin.social ) 
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      Don’t tweet it, just exit.

    •  andrai   ( @andrai@feddit.de ) 
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      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

      •  dan   ( @dan@upvote.au ) 
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        Doesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.

        •  Burnt   ( @Burnt@lemmy.one ) 
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          That was always my understanding of it.

        •  andrai   ( @andrai@feddit.de ) 
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          Yeah, you are right. Guess we used it wrong in school.

          •  Vashti   ( @vashti@feddit.uk ) 
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            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.

        •  linuxduck   ( @linuxduck@nerdly.dev ) 
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          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!

        •  Silent-G   ( @silent_g@beehaw.org ) 
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          That never made sense to me. X is the shape of two people hugging and O is the shape of pursed lips.

          •  dan   ( @dan@upvote.au ) 
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            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.

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