The clipping of words is a harmless habit, used less for speed in spoken communication than for its sense of novelty or insiderness.
Then the students heard sound clips of words--some they'd heard already and some new words spoken by the same characters.
Thanks to the internet you can hear a voice clip of a word or phrase being spoken to practice with.
Listening: You'll hear an audio clip of a word or sentence, and be asked to type it in.
Produced pro bono by BBDO, an Omnicom agency that worked on two previous campaigns for the Child Study Center, the campaign features scrawled and typed communiqués as well as simulations of classic ransom notes, composed of words clipped from a newspaper.
But the real thrill is in the often odd coupling of words (each clip has three tags) and moving images.
It suits Ice well; during his 2008 war of words and YouTube clips with the teen rapper Soulja Boy, he came off as grossly out of touch and curmudgeonly.
The business network, a unit of NBC Universal, continues to show the "In Cramer We Trust" commercials that were blasted by Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" weeks ago during a much-talked-about war of words and video clips.
This seemed a peculiar choice of words, since video clips, shot by locals, showed Dabi and his team attempting to have conversations that are drowned out by the sound of gunfire as government forces shot at demonstrators, killing a half dozen of them, according to multiple reports.
Adrian mentions that Ben got a scholarship to Sandhurst, and then we have to sit through a blinkin' selection of clips of him saying the word "Sandhurst" and Margaret's classic putdown from earlier - "He didn't actually GO THERE, though, did he?" Al makes excuses for Ben because he is so young.
