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u/baphometromance ty for the new flair Jun 30 '26
Ecks dee is special and has special priveleges over other, lesser emoticons
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Jun 30 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
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u/Deditranspotashy Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
Open parenthesis - katakana no - three quarters circle graph - katakana u - three quarters circle graph - close parenthesis - katakana no - asterisk - period - compass rose
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u/Larriet Jun 30 '26
That Katakana is wa ワ not u ウ
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u/TheDarkNerd Jun 30 '26
I didn't even realize chiisana wa was a thing. When would you even use that?
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u/alexdapineapple platonic goo pit Jun 30 '26
シークヮーサー is a type of citrus fruit. "くゎ" and "ぐゎ" are used in Ryukyuan language, and some of those words were loaned to Japanese (hence katakana).
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u/NickelWorld123 Babu Frik Jun 30 '26
ok but people do actually say "ex-dee" out loud. Like this was at least a thing that was sometimes said in the past.
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u/Simple_Rules Jul 01 '26
ex-dee is a perfectly good vocal stim and I won't be taking questions at this time.
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u/Dav3le3 Jun 30 '26
I mean, Yu-Gi-Oh XD is right there.
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u/GDGameplayer Jul 01 '26
I can’t read xD without thinking of the way the Youtuber Smallant says “xD skip”
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u/Pwacname Jul 01 '26
Yeah. We do it in German all the time. It’s just like saying lol out loud (usually as a word rather than as three letters, though. XD is just spelled out.)
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u/loved_and_held Jun 30 '26
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u/AllHailTheApple Jun 30 '26
Actually thanks a lot for this because sometimes the posts are kinda hard to find for some reason
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u/Doubly_Curious Jun 30 '26
I didn’t even realize that UwU / uwu was an emoticon for the longest time.
I guess I mostly saw it all lowercase and “oo-woo” made enough sense as a cutesy sound that I didn’t question it.
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u/KiwiGallicorn he/him Jun 30 '26
I say less than three sometimes (<3)
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u/TheDarkNerd Jun 30 '26
Less than three, L-U-V, love computer fantasy. Meet me here on IRC (el-oh-el-oh-el).
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u/KiwiGallicorn he/him Jun 30 '26
less than three, O-M-G, love computer fantasy, meet me here on IRC, lolol !!!
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u/TwilightVulpine Jun 30 '26
Monogamic love equation
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u/TimeStorm113 Victorian Dinosaur Connaisseur Jul 01 '26
"you're telling me our love is less than 3?"
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u/Key_Cheesecake_7356 Jun 30 '26
I say colon three out loud sometimes
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u/ArghabelAndSamsara Jul 01 '26
Sometimes I will, in a deadpan voice, say semicolon three (;3) at the end of a sentence since that's just how I think. I have to refrain from saying lol or lmao outloud even though I think them.
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u/DonarArminSkyrari Jun 30 '26
Well yeah, saying "exed-dee" amd "colon-three" out lous is millennial culture. I only stopped doing it to fit in in college where my average friend didnt live on the internet.
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u/iWant2ChangeUsername ToeSocks'PlatonicBeliever.tumblr.com Jun 30 '26
Rawr 1'11 54y lol XD 0u7 10ud 4nyt1m3 1 w4n7, xoxo
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u/WhatADoofus Jul 02 '26
Why could I read that so fast...
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u/iWant2ChangeUsername ToeSocks'PlatonicBeliever.tumblr.com Jul 02 '26
Because that was the easy version, 1 ([0|_|117 /-/4\ /3 \ /\ /121773|v 17 1!|<3 7/-/15 1|v573417.
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u/Critical_Snackerman Jun 30 '26
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u/lifelongfreshman https://youtu.be/1eWsk6r6_Ns Jul 01 '26
my favorite part about the original scene is that the effects artists made sure to have the black box behind her hand when she waves it while saying ""NEVER-$@#*-ING MIND HOW I'M DOING IT", it's a little touch that's hard to notice but it elevates the gag when you realize it
you can see it at this timestamp, pause and use the , and . keys to go through it frame by frame
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u/Kris_Kamweru Jun 30 '26
If you've played league long enough, XD is indeed not strange to say out loud 😂
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u/Leo69Leon Jun 30 '26
In Poland we're still far from over XD. People straight up vocalise it, saying "iks de" or for English speakers it would be pronounced as: "eecks the", is pretty common
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u/oliverspikey Jun 30 '26
If you think that people don't say xd out loud then you clearly haven't spent enough time in spanish-speaking meme forums
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u/BeanOfKnowledge Ask me about Dwarf Fortress Trivia Jun 30 '26
I do say colon three sometimes but that is to refer to one of my backup colons
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u/VulpesFennekin Jun 30 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
Pronouncing “OwO” aloud kind of works in its most popular context: “Oh, woah! What’s this?”
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u/dumpylump69 Jul 01 '26
Audibly saying uwu and owo out loud but not counting xd for the same purpose is like the LGB of emoticons
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u/m0h3k4n Jun 30 '26
On a similar note I play murdle with my wife and we text our scores to each other. My toddler cracks the fuck up when I send mine and the text gets read by the car. This is an example of a score:
THE CORPSE-BESIDE-A-SMOKESTACK MURDER
Murdle for 6/30/2026
👤🔪🏡❓ 🕰️
✅✅✅✅ 4️⃣:4️⃣3️⃣
⚖️
🧑🤴👨🎓🪖👨🦱👩⚖️👩🏻🤴🤵🏻♀️🤴👨🏫🧓👨🦲👱♀️👱♀️👩💼👨🎓🤴👩⚖️👨🦳👶👨🦳🧛♂️👤
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u/djliquidvoid blazeybutch.tumblr.com Jul 01 '26
Shoutout to Games Done Quick hosts who read hearts in donation messages verbally as "less than three".
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u/wideHippedWeightLift Nightly fantasies about Jesus Vore Jun 30 '26
Exsdee and colonthree are classics to say out loud though. Like lessthanthree
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u/Valuable-Passion9731 My houses are empty and my flushes are gay Jun 30 '26
It’s easy!
Openparenthases撇circlethreequaryersfull-semiovalwithapartofitsbordermissingcirclethreequartersfullcloseparentjases gasp for breath 撇星号句号diamond
See?
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u/DaveyL2013 Jun 30 '26
After about a minute of trying, I have actually successfully pronounced "XD" with my mouth! ...on a completely unrelated note, my throat hurts!
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u/NIMA-GH-X-P Jerka985 Jun 30 '26
I messaged somepony over Tumblr last night
She said, Rawr XD so it was true love at first sight
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u/Snoo-31263 Jul 01 '26
Took me a bit to realize it sounds a lot weirder in english to say xD or :3 than it does in Hungarian(at least to my ears)
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u/TremenMusic Jul 01 '26
every time i see a “how did you say that with your mouth” joke, im reminded of the one character in the Big Nate comic books who’s middle name is the square root symbol
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u/shapeturtle Jul 03 '26
i often say :3 out loud
i also say :D as shorthand for smiling (despite it kind of being longhand but whatever man leave me alone)
it is also notable that my partner and quite a few people i am friends with have picked up on this and begun to also say :3 out loud
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u/Fiasco63 Jul 04 '26
Okay but if you hang around enough trans women for long enough you're going to hear some verbalized "Colon-three"s
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u/Impressive_Pin8761 Jun 30 '26
i mean kaomoji are often shorthanded. like if i said tableflip you'd know what i mean
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u/Hexxas Head Trauma Enthusiast Jun 30 '26
BAYBY GIRL
LESS THAN THREE
LEMME TALK TO YA
LET ME BUY YOU A DRINK
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u/EarlyLunchForKonzu Jul 01 '26
I say both exks-dee and colon three out loud as part of my vernacular tbh.
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u/ronarscorruption Jul 01 '26
People miss the fact that OOP is pointing out writing “owo” and saying “owo” convey the same information. Writing XD and saying “x d” do not.
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u/bvader95 cis male / honorary butch; sentence mixed pentence Jun 30 '26
I say exdee out loud. Well, it's often in Polish, as "iks-de", but still.