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The x became the signature of choice in the Middle Ages, a time when few people could write, and documents were sealed with an x embossed in wax or lead. “We still see it on churches from medieval times.”
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“X meant Christ, and because of that, it meant faith and fidelity,” says Marcel Danesi, a professor of linguistic anthropology and semiotics at the University of Toronto. When Christianity came along, x came to represent a cross. The symbol x is the letter taw in early Hebrew (and in Ezekiel, a mark set “upon the foreheads” of men) and chi in Greek. There is no definitive answer to how a cross came to mean a kiss, but it’s most likely to have evolved from the written tradition. Then there are auditory explanations, such as the similarity in the pronunciation of “x” and “kiss.” There are visual explanations: that “x” resembles a kiss, for example that “o” looks like an embrace or the union of bodies and that “x” and “o” together form a kiss on a face. The Internet abounds with origin theories. Where do those symbols come from, these ur-emoticons that we sprinkle so liberally across our correspondence?
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The art of writing longhand may have faded, but many of us continue to emit x’s and o’s like a binary love code in the e-mails that consume our daily lives. After my signature, she told me, I was to add the symbols “x” and “o.” A kiss and a hug. In the early 1960s, my mother instructed me in letter-writing etiquette.