Synecdoche ( Synecdoche@feddit.de ) to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years agoTwitter is now Xwww.twitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square120linkfedilinkarrow-up1235
arrow-up1235external-linkTwitter is now Xwww.twitter.comSynecdoche ( Synecdoche@feddit.de ) to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square120linkfedilink
minus-squaredan ( dan@upvote.au ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·3 years agoDoesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.
minus-squareBurnt ( Burnt@lemmy.one ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 years agoThat was always my understanding of it.
minus-squareandrai ( andrai@feddit.de ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years agoYeah, you are right. Guess we used it wrong in school.
minus-squareVashti ( vashti@feddit.uk ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 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-squareSilent-G ( silent_g@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoThat never made sense to me. X is the shape of two people hugging and O is the shape of pursed lips.
minus-squaredan ( dan@upvote.au ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 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.
minus-squarelinuxduck ( linuxduck@nerdly.dev ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 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!
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.
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.
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!