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From: pugh@cornell.UUCP (William Pugh)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Re: The new hugging symbol
Message-ID: <519@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 14:51:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: cornell.519
Posted: Sun Sep 15 14:51:42 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Sep-85 00:15:04 EDT
References: <1211@ihlpg.UUCP>
Reply-To: pugh@cornell.UUCP (William Pugh)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
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Summary: 

In article <1211@ihlpg.UUCP> sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (s. dugan) writes:
>> 
>> Gee... I thought that in written correspondence, "X X X" was conventionally
>> used to mean "hugs", and "O O O" was conventionally used to mean "kisses".
>> Isn't anyone else familiar with this?
>> 
>
>I think you have it backwards.  "X X X" is for kisses and "O O O" is for hugs.
>My family always put them in pairs:  "X O   X O   X O".
>

	I'm not really sure, but I thought "X X X" represented the crossed arms
of a hug and "O O O" represented the puckered lips of a kiss.  Where might
one look for a definitive answer on this type of thing?  I don't think it's
listing in the dictionary...


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