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• “Calculations: Customer SLP tic$tic%originalSLPtic% tic* 16tic% = tic$tic%customerSLPtic%. ` n) tic: = Chr (96)”

  AutoHotkey Community

• “Mr. Carlin's most disturbing tic is a faux-intimate style.”

  The Wall Street Journal: McCartney Keeps the Biographers at Bay

• “My personal tic is the overuse, as you mention, of adverbs and speech descriptors (ask, proposed, acknowledged – etc etc!)”

  Dialogue is a dance « Write Anything

• “One of the things that I learned at Viable Paradise was that this can easily happen by accident — you associate a certain tic or action with writing, and your brain seizes on the connection.”

  Not-so-required for writing «

• “Such a twitch is usually known as a tic (a word arising from the same root that "twitch" does, perhaps).”

  The Human Brain

• “The painful muscular spasms associated with trigeminal neuralgia are sometimes referred to as tic douloureux (tik doo-loo-ruh '; "painful twitch" French).”

  The Human Brain

• “Such as above, I don’t think saying you “really mean to use” a specific language tic is any more forceful than saying that you “mean to use” them.”

  Cataloguing My Tics

• “While habits are normal, a tic might be a symptom of a health problem.”

  Simon & Schuster: You Raising Your Child

• “You really have to get over your name-calling tic in order for me to take you seriously.”

  What do you hope happens in Iran? « Dating Jesus

• “My only real problem with it is that the author has a seriously annoying tic, which is to say he seems to be unable to pen a single chapter without Portentous Utterances Of Impending Doom, of the "Little did they know --" variety.”

  the winds are crying remember me through the holy silence of the desert and the sea

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