Timeline for Word for the sound of keyboard typing
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| Oct 16, 2018 at 18:53 | comment | added | AkselA | The sound of typing on a touch screen I would probably describe as 'tapping'. | |
| Oct 16, 2018 at 10:33 | vote | accept | Ahmed | ||
| Oct 15, 2018 at 22:32 | comment | added | Sentinel | Programmers bang code out on their keyboards. In the office I hear people clicking away. At night when I am hacking for fun, I am quietly tapping on my keyboard. Sometimes I am furiously hammering at the thing. | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 14:43 | history | edited | computercarguy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 15, 2018 at 14:38 | comment | added | computercarguy | @Ruadhan2300, I included it more for "completeness" than normal usage, although there are a few rare times I might have used "snick" for a keyboard. | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 14:30 | comment | added | Ruadhan2300 | In my experience, "Snick" as an onomatopoeia tends to refer to springloaded pointy items like flipknives, switchblades or razors, it sounds sharp, rather than being a sharp sound per-say. It even has the word "nick" in it. Obviously this is my own subjective experience but I'd find "snick" an odd choice if I read it in a book. | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 14:05 | history | answered | computercarguy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |