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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish20•1 year agoDoesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•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-GlinkfedilinkEnglish1•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoYeah, you are right. Guess we used it wrong in school.
minus-squareVashtilinkfedilinkEnglish6•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 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.
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.