What does [sic] mean?

D

Ok i've seen this around and wonder what it means. It is usually inserted inside of a quote.

RuggieBear

http://www.gcse.com/english/sic.htm

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What tit really cares about grammar that much that they would go so far as to put [sic] in a quote just to show that they didnt spell the word wrongly.

well who ever you are, please slap yourself nice and hard for me

thanks

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Mark Twain

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Thanking you Mr. Bear.

MrJoeSoap

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well who ever you are, please slap yourself nice and hard for me

Ouch, that one hurt!

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MrJoeSoap wrote:

Ouch, that one hurt!

Ha Ha!!

Larianne

I was gonna post up that question the other day after reading a magazine but thought I'd look stupid. :rolleyes:

....And now I know...:)

faceman

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Ok i've seen this around and wonder what it means. It is usually inserted inside of a quote.

I think its when you cant go to work cos uve something better to do. I get me Ma to write a note saying I was sic. Works every time!

Eoin

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What tit really cares about grammar that much that they would go so far as to put [sic] in a quote just to show that they didnt spell the word wrongly.

If you were a writer for a newspaper, you would probably want to show that a typo or error is deliberate. It is really to show that you didn't make an error, rather to show that someone else did.

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eoin_s wrote:

If you were a writer for a newspaper, you would probably want to show that a typo or error is deliberate. It is really to show that you didn't make an error, rather to show that someone else did.

Yes that is fine, but boards.ie is not a newspaper in fact I don’t think anyone gets paid to write on boards.ie therefore if they use this grammatical nuttiness in normal day to day activity they are clearly gone the wrong path in life. You know the path mammies all around the world tell their children about.

There is evidence to show most drug addicts start out life as grammar fanatics. They bore themselves so bad they needed some really hard drugs to give them a little life back. Be weary of the grammar.

It’s the same as you in conversation with your buddies trying to raze the intelligential barrier by constantly looking up your mental thesauruses. I wonder how long it would take for you to get a good damn staring at. It’s a wicked form of snobbery.

Supercell

I never knew why this was done either..this post has added to the vast repository of knowledge in my brain!!
Learn something new every day kids!!

Hagar

Daffy Duck: "I'm sic [sic] of this thread"

Mr.Nice Guy

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It’s the same as you in conversation with your buddies trying to raze [sic] the intelligential barrier by constantly looking up your mental thesauruses. I wonder how long it would take for you to get a good damn staring at. It’s a wicked form of snobbery.

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Il Get U......

Steven

It's not used solely to point out the mistakes of others. It can be used to show that even if something appears to be spelled incorrectly, it's not, eg. an unusual spelling of a common surname

In other news, Mr.Nice Guy is now my favourite person in the world.

D

Larianne wrote:

I was gonna post up that question the other day after reading a magazine but thought I'd look stupid. :rolleyes:

....And now I know...:)

Oh so it's ok for me to look stupid?

Larianne

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Oh so it's ok for me to look stupid?

No! Not at all! heehee

Gordon

"Behold - the Penis mightier than the sword."[sic]

- Mark Twain

nesf

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Yes that is fine, but boards.ie is not a newspaper in fact I don’t think anyone gets paid to write on boards.ie therefore if they use this grammatical nuttiness in normal day to day activity they are clearly gone the wrong path in life. You know the path mammies all around the world tell their children about.

I've not seen it used often here, tbh. The only times that spring to mind were ones where it was used sarcastically when quoting someone or something.

If people use it seriously, then fair enough. So long as people aren't been given crap about not using it I don't see a problem. It can be used to highlight an error as much as it can be used to show the error wasn't the author's.

D

Gordon wrote:

"Behold - the Penis mightier than the sword."[sic]

- Mark Twain

Ok how did you use it that time? I can't see any spelling mistakes? Or is it that you disagree with what was said?

Gordon

Strictly speaking that sentence could have a grammatical error in it depending on the context D. Stating [sic] after a sentence or word doesn't mean that you don't agree with it, it simply means that whatever has been written (or said afaik) has been reproduced exactly as it has been produced.

Eoin

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Yes that is fine, but boards.ie is not a newspaper in fact I don’t think anyone gets paid to write on boards.ie therefore if they use this grammatical nuttiness in normal day to day activity they are clearly gone the wrong path in life. You know the path mammies all around the world tell their children about.

There is evidence to show most drug addicts start out life as grammar fanatics. They bore themselves so bad they needed some really hard drugs to give them a little life back. Be weary of the grammar.

It’s the same as you in conversation with your buddies trying to raze the intelligential barrier by constantly looking up your mental thesauruses. I wonder how long it would take for you to get a good damn staring at. It’s a wicked form of snobbery.

I didn't say that boards.ie is a newspaper. I have not seen "sic" used on boards before. I was just pointing out that it is used to show that the error is deliberate.

I don't like to see people give out about bad grammar, but seeing people give out about good grammar is worse.

D

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Strictly speaking that sentence could have a grammatical error in it depending on the context D. Stating [sic] after a sentence or word doesn't mean that you don't agree with it, it simply means that whatever has been written (or said afaik) has been reproduced exactly as it has been produced.

Thanks that's got it.

Mr.Nice Guy

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It's not used solely to point out the mistakes of others. It can be used to show that even if something appears to be spelled incorrectly, it's not, eg. an unusual spelling of a common surname

In other news, Mr.Nice Guy is now my favourite person in the world. [sick in the head]