@Master@beehaw.org
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61Y

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!

@andrai@feddit.de
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31Y

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

@dan@upvote.au
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191Y

Doesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.

Silent-G
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11Y

That never made sense to me. X is the shape of two people hugging and O is the shape of pursed lips.

@dan@upvote.au
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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.

@linuxduck@nerdly.dev
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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!

@Burnt@lemmy.one
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101Y

That was always my understanding of it.

@andrai@feddit.de
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21Y

Yeah, you are right. Guess we used it wrong in school.

Vashti
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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.

Don’t tweet it, just exit.

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