• Rentlar@beehaw.orgEnglish
    29·
    11 months 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.orgEnglish
      6·
      11 months 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.deEnglish
        3·
        11 months 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.auEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

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

            • Vashti@feddit.ukEnglish
              7·
              11 months 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.

          • Silent-G@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            11 months 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.auEnglish
              1·
              11 months 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.

          • linuxduck@nerdly.devEnglish
            1·
            11 months 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!