Synecdoche to [email protected]English • edit-22 years agoTwitter is now Xwww.twitter.commessage-square159fedilinkarrow-up1235
arrow-up1235external-linkTwitter is now Xwww.twitter.comSynecdoche to [email protected]English • edit-22 years agomessage-square159fedilink
minus-squareRentlarlinkfedilinkEnglish29•2 years agoI 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoIf 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!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoThe 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
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish21•2 years agoDoesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoYeah, you are right. Guess we used it wrong in school.
minus-squareVashtilinkfedilinkEnglish7•2 years 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•2 years agoThat was always my understanding of it.
minus-squareSilent-GlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years 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•2 years 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•2 years 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoI mean I do that daily. Only not on the internets
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.
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!
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
Doesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.
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.
That was always my understanding of it.
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 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!
Don’t tweet it, just exit.
Wait…it’s not tooting anymore?
I mean I do that daily. Only not on the internets
Excreting.