• Rentlar
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    281 year ago

    I wonder how many (e)X-twitter users there will be after this change.

    Even Mastodon’s old lingo "toot"ing sounds more trendy than "x"ing a comment.

    • @Master@beehaw.org
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      61 year ago

      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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        31 year ago

        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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          191 year ago

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

            • Vashti
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              71 year ago

              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.

          • @linuxduck@nerdly.dev
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            11 year ago

            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!

          • Silent-G
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            11 year ago

            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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              11 year ago

              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.