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x=a kiss sign. What's a kiss sign for the Polish?


blondie 2 | 3  
29 Jan 2008 /  #1
after a text we use x for a kiss symbol.what do the polish use?hope this isnt a stupid question to ask.
starchild 2 | 120  
29 Jan 2008 /  #3
Actually... maybe my guy is the odd one out (most likely) but he didn't know what I meant when i sent him a text that was just an X. He asked me what is this? And I said a kiss and he replied.. polish kiss =:)

He always sent his kisses using that symbol for the first few months and now he just does xxxx's like everyone else.

Maybe its just him tho?!
osiol 55 | 3,921  
29 Jan 2008 /  #4
he didn't know what I meant when i sent him a text that was just an X

y?
OP blondie 2 | 3  
29 Jan 2008 /  #5
bardzo jencoryeah.cant spell the thankyou word properley in polish.never mind.thanks for replying but thought it might have been different
starchild 2 | 120  
29 Jan 2008 /  #6
y?

Oh cr*p... why can't I think of a witty one letter response???
irishdeano 5 | 304  
30 Jan 2008 /  #7
they also use alot in poland for kissing :* :*
James Revan 1 | 66  
30 Jan 2008 /  #8
:* - kiss
:*~ - kiss with a "tounge"
Wyspianska  
30 Jan 2008 /  #9
What the hack! My tongue doesn't look like that ~
You can put :* or just *
Michal - | 1,865  
30 Jan 2008 /  #10
xxxxx

The same

They never used to. In the early 1980's, in Moscow, I used to write letters to my Polish girl friend and she asked what it was? After she knew, she too used it but as a kiss, to the Poles, it was unknown.
Davey 13 | 388  
30 Jan 2008 /  #11
cant spell the thankyou word properley in polish

Dziękuję
OP blondie 2 | 3  
30 Jan 2008 /  #12
thanks davey.im getting the hang of the polish language.very hard to learn.
El Gato 4 | 351  
30 Jan 2008 /  #13
In the US a lot of people use <3

They're supposed to be lips
Zgubiony 15 | 1,553  
31 Jan 2008 /  #14
<3 is a heart
kman67 2 | 79  
31 Jan 2008 /  #15
I think I'm a pervert.

I was thinking <3 was something else.....
osiol 55 | 3,921  
31 Jan 2008 /  #16
British standard kite-mark emoticon?
Wyspianska  
31 Jan 2008 /  #17
I think I'm a pervert.

I was thinking <3 was something else.....

me2 :P
osiol 55 | 3,921  
31 Jan 2008 /  #18
* is something else again.
bringthepoison 2 | 23  
4 Feb 2008 /  #20
bardzo jencoryeah.cant spell the thankyou word properley in polish

its dziękuję
nouser  
4 Feb 2008 /  #21
it only takes american idiocy to mark x for a kiss
Rezo - | 4  
23 Feb 2008 /  #22
It's :*. Just :*.
Gosia - | 35  
23 Feb 2008 /  #23
i think that very few people in Poland use X. 99% use :*
by the way, i thought <3 was icecream in a horn...
pipeczko  
29 Feb 2008 /  #25
I was thinking <3 was something else.....

and me. could actually be a variety of things, and involve kissing, but i don't think quite the innocent buziaczki the post was meant to be about ...

So is <>

Go on then. What is it?
nauczyciel  
2 Mar 2008 /  #26
ok isnt "o" a kiss as it kinda looks like lips whereas "x" is like arms giving a hug?
Zgubiony 15 | 1,553  
3 Mar 2008 /  #27
The other way around. X=kisses O= hugs.
nauczyciel  
3 Mar 2008 /  #28
howso??
Davey 13 | 388  
3 Mar 2008 /  #29
No reason.
x is a kiss. xxx means kisses....
free spirit 1 | 37  
18 Mar 2008 /  #30
History lesson time for X as a kiss.
Way back in the days of snail mail, teenagers would put a X across the envelope seal of a love letter to discourage the courier (usually a friend) from opening the envelope to take a peek. (There was no guarantee that the envelope could be re-sealed with the X accurately realigned). This was known and still is, as 'sealed with a loving kiss' hence the S.W.A.L.K. sometimes also used. Thus, the origin of the X. But we are talking 50's and 60's teenagers here. ;)

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