Synecdoche@feddit.de to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · edit-21 year agoTwitter is now Xwww.twitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square154fedilinkarrow-up1224arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1224arrow-down1external-linkTwitter is now Xwww.twitter.comSynecdoche@feddit.de to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square154fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareMaster@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 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-up3·1 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-up18·1 year agoDoesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.
minus-squareBurnt@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoThat was always my understanding of it.
minus-squareandrai@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoYeah, you are right. Guess we used it wrong in school.
minus-squareVashti@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 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.
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.