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-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.
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.