Synecdoche@feddit.de to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · edit-21 year agoTwitter is now Xwww.twitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square141fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down10
arrow-up1155arrow-down1external-linkTwitter is now Xwww.twitter.comSynecdoche@feddit.de to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square141fedilink
minus-squareMaster@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year 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-squareandrai@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoDoesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.
minus-squareBurnt@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoThat was always my understanding of it.
minus-squareSilent-G@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat never made sense to me. X is the shape of two people hugging and O is the shape of pursed lips.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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@nerdly.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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-squareandrai@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoYeah, you are right. Guess we used it wrong in school.
minus-squareVashti@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year 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.
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.
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!
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.