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#1 2020-08-28 21:12:22

DavidTuggy
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Just a snipped of something or other

I heard a snipped of this song in an airport a couple weeks ago, and again out of someone’s open window the other day.

She remembered a snipped of conversation she had heard

Here’s a snipped of our performance at #lfcc2019 in the cosplay finals as Kratos and mimir! We absolutely loved performing, thanks

This is a snipped of a video I have on pause, thought I might finish it since I can’t get out due to corona-virus.

Made of bear grass, juncus, pine, and yucca, these baskets represent a snipped of the Kumeyaay use of native plants.

Just a snipped of destruction from #Irma as they Eyewall with 185 MPH winds & gusts over 225 passed over Barbuda on Wednesday.

C. A snipped of code that can be passed into a method. Block is a just a snipped of code which starts with “do” and ends with “end” key words.

There seem to be lots of them, they are proffered with no hint of apology or doubt, and it is sometimes repeated. It certainly makes sense: a snippet is a little piece that has been snipped out of something. There are enough stem-èd words around ( wretched, wicked, naked, blessèd, soft-headed, , …) that one could easily take the marginal diminutive(?) suffix -et as an example of -èd.
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I’m quite sure we have discussed those -èd words somewhere or other on this forum, but didn’t find it; we may well have tied -et into it there.
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We do have snipbit < snippet and snip it/snipit<snippet , here too


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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#2 2020-09-07 12:47:15

kem
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Re: Just a snipped of something or other

It makes auditory sense that “snipped” would replace “snippet.” Many people pronounce “snippet” with reduced final syllable.


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