Synecdoche@feddit.de to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · edit-21 year agoTwitter is now Xwww.twitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square160fedilinkarrow-up1235
arrow-up1235external-linkTwitter is now Xwww.twitter.comSynecdoche@feddit.de to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square160fedilink
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 year agoDoesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.
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.
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-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.
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.
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!
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.