Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:16:49 +0100 (MET) | From | Magnus Johansson <> | Subject | OFFTOPIC: Re: PROBLEM: english language |
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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Brendan Cully wrote:
> "sic" doesn't stand for "spelling is correct", or even "stated in > context" (yech!). > > In fact, it stands for "yes, I know it looks funny, but that's how I want > it". But people got tired of typing Y,IKILF,BTHIWI so they abbreviated > it to SIC. Then they got tired of pressing caps lock or shift, as is > common on the internet (i see it all the time), and started writing it > as "sic". > > Someone said it was Latin for "thus" or "so", but that's just plain > outlandish - anyone who knew Latin could probably take some time to > learn to spell too.
sic (sik, sek) adv. Thus; so. Used in written texts to indicate that a surprising quotation is not a mistake and is to be read as it stands. [Latin sic.] *Definition taken from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (1970)
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~everett/sic.html
/Magnus majo0625@student.uu.se
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