Dirk39
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Mon Jul-12-04 10:14 PM
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Hey academics: tell me about "(...)" and "snip"! |
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Hello from Germany, slow between the ears as I am, after reading about 20.000 postings on DU, I somehow recognized that whenever Germans - and other folks - write "(...)", when something from an original source is left out, DUers write "snip". Maybe I was just blind, but I cannot remember "snip" from any english text I did ever read. So please, tell me everything about "SNIP"...
Just curious, Dirk
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Mon Jul-12-04 10:15 PM
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1. Yes, it should be the ellipses (the three dots) |
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I have no idea why folks here use "snip," except perhaps that it's easier to see in a lengthy post.
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Mon Jul-12-04 10:16 PM
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4. people use snip probably because ... means et cetera or... |
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to be continued in message.
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Nevernose
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Mon Jul-12-04 10:35 PM
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9. No, the ellipses means that something has been left out |
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The "to be continued" use isn't standard (at least not yet). It's just a thing that people do for whatever reason.
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Mon Jul-12-04 10:16 PM
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2. It is like the sound of |
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cutting something, like if you cut out something from the newspaper it's a 'snip'
so when you cut off an article on here you say 'snip' to indicate the cut.
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Mon Jul-12-04 10:16 PM
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It just means "cut", as in cut out or take out.
A German friend of mine wanted once to say that his breadth stank, and he said "Oh, I stunk out the mouth" as in Stinkt aus dem Mund--we still laugh about it!
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Mon Jul-12-04 10:17 PM
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5. We use snip because it indicates that part of article has been cut. |
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We aren't educated enough to use elipses.
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Mon Jul-12-04 10:18 PM
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6. Snip, as in snippet... |
Dirk39
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Mon Jul-12-04 10:27 PM
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7. Thanks to all of you... |
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I thought, I've missed something. Snip, Dirk
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Mon Jul-12-04 10:33 PM
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On DU one is encouraged to post only 4 paragraphs from an article, then the link to it. Sometimes there is some interesting information further down, so I put (snip) to indicate I'm skipping ahead and no longer posting the article word for word. I use (snip) as if I'm cutting part of the article out with scissors.
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