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I have a palm pilot-- (and Sparteye mentioned she has a Handspring) I usually sync my palm with my work mail/calendar system, with my home PC..
I am heading up a pilot program at work for Palm's-- and because we use Lotus Notes ( a very secure application) setting up the Palm to sync is tricky--
was is also tricky is talking about a successful sync in the past--
sync, of course, is short for synchronize. (and is really the wrong word for the action, since i am actually "replicating" the same information in several places, rather that having actions occur at the same time)
But sync is quick easy way to define the process by which the information is replicated.. but how do you say Sync'ed? or do you go back to the full word and say synchronized? are there other words that have their tenses so out of sync?
we tend to "recast our sentences", so as to not use a past tense.
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I think lip-synching has been around for a while. Lip synchronisation is the name of a procedure for synchronising dialogue soundtrack and filmed image in films, whether in their original production or when dubbing. It is also used in the music industry when in so-called "live" performances the sound is actually pre-recorded and the performer simply moves his/her lips or sings on top of the powerful soundtrack. There are numerous examples of music "stars" out there who lip-synch. So maybe you could "synch" instead of "sync"? As in "I synched my computers"? (doesn't that sound weird anyway...) 
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(H)Actually, on second thoughts, I think I'd rather enjoy saying "I sanc my computers"!! 
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The running joke around here is "Have you sunc today"... alluding to salespeople who finally, after spending all morning at a perpetual water-cooler meeting, sit down (ie. sink) at thier desks to get some work done... where the first thing to do is to sycronize the data they have entered onto a laptop (unhooked from the network) since thier last sync.
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Oh it has to be synch, not sync. You can't split a chi down the middle like that.
I feel no urge at all to apply the irregularity of its homophone to a new (and therefore regular verb). I'm sure this says something Pinkerish, such as that exceptions are stored not phonetically but semantically.
The picture was hung, the convict was hanged: it still takes a moment's thought with me; likewise, "still lifes". But basically exceptional forms are stored as individual entries, not as patterns. At an early stage in child development they start making irregular patterns apply to regular words, then later learn to make the correct distinctions. So the existence of two words /siNk/ with different behaviours should be no problem.
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NW warns: You can't split a chi down the middle like that.
Agreed. If you did, it'd fission your chakras. Do not try this at home.
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NicholasW feels no urge at all to apply the irregularity of its homophone to a new (and therefore regular verb).
I feel no need to point out that this is a humorous usage.
I do feel a need to ask NW if he can explain *why it's "the picture was hung" but "the convict was hanged".
I concur on the distaste of splitting the chi and agree with AnnaS (no bias here) that it could be very dangerous particularly in the hands of amateurs.
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fission your chakrasYou can remove the stain from this unfortunate occurence by soaking the place in a mixture of two parts tomato juice to one part vinegar for half-an-hour, then washing in luke-warm water. If you have droped chips on the chakras at the same time, you have a real problem, as chip-fat stains need a totally - and incompatible - treatment for removal 
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synchronized-- where are you all getting the CHI from? is a CHR
i think chr -- pronounced by my base tongue as KR-- can be split.. (and sync (as in the brands intillisync-- and easysync, or lip-sync(ing) ) seems to be pretty common split. and not a new one...
the Kr sound of CHR comes up again as Christ(mas) (ian) etc. and Kristen is a common alternate spelling..
but then its all greek to me!
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but then its all greek to me!
From the selfsame language
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