What soes (sic) mean?

Had to make a new thread, didn't want to violate any rules by being off topic! :D

It's Latin. It's typically used to indicate incorrect spelling that's intentionally included, but isn't your own mistake.

So when they used it in the other thread it was a personal attack on my typo... Tanje I pointed out the mistake on Buayden's post. So it's all happy now.

I think they understand that their attempt at a personal attack was pretty lame and probably won't use the grammar, spelling flames anyloner.

Thank you, that's pretty informative. Do you know what the latin phrase is that sic stands for?

It's not an abbreviation. I think it translates literally to "so" or "thus".

No clue how it ended up meaning "dumbass can't spell".

hahaha now that is something I would be interested in finding out. I find etymology very fascinating. Yes I am a nerd, its okay, you can say it. :rolleyes:

Thank you, that's pretty informative. Do you know what the latin phrase is that sic stands for?

I always thought sic meant to unleash your garage full of starving put bulls upon unsuspecting victims who pass by your place of residence..

Here lemme explain that because I'm sure you can't read between the lines..

Come to the Tribs boards and start trouble.. The Flameboard users of the Trib who have been starving for some action will come attack your pussified rule laden of shit.. Some of your users have turned all your users into victims.

But damn I was wrong.. Go figure.

By all means delete the two posts by Twinked.

Get out of my thread you angry ogre. I am talking nerd stuff here. Your name is all over the place.

Here's some irony. I make a positive post asking about a latin phrase and someone gives me 3 negative hits on it. I don't understand that at all.

Probably my fault.. I've lost 11 points in about an hour.

Oh, look! My very own NAG thread! It's been a long time since that's happened.

Well, if you were concerned about being off-topic, you could have also just sent a PM, but it looks like Sanchek covered it nicely....

i've never had a thread about me either.. it makes ya feel kinda whole inside.. TY *Tear* You trib people are so generous

Oh, look! My very own NAG thread! It's been a long time since that's happened.

Well, if you were concerned about being off-topic, you could have also just sent a PM, but it looks like Sanchek covered it nicely....

hahaha you know, that never occurred to me! :)

i've never had a thread about me either.. it makes ya feel kinda whole inside.. TY *Tear* You trib people are so generous
The ones about you (not you personally, shamzy) are usually the ones least worth reading fyi

(sic) is usually used when quoting someone else and indicates that any errors in the quote are from the original source.


E.g. Bob said "...thoes guys are all a bunhc of big dubm studipheads!!!" (sic)

This is a fairly informative write-up.
We use sic — italicized (but not underlined) and in square brackets, as in [sic] to indicate that a word in a quotation was misspelled or otherwise miscast in the original language. We should use this only when it is really important to retain the original spelling and grammar for some ethical or historical reason. Otherwise, it is regarded as bad manners to retain the mistaken language. If misspellings litter the quoted language, it would be better to note at the beginning of the text that you are using the original. To pepper your quotation with here-a-sic, there-a-sic simply becomes annoying.

Authority: New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage HarperCollins: New York. 1994. Cited with permission. p. 304.

Heh for some reason it just stuck in my head that sic = "Spelling InCorrect" =)

sic = sicut (latin) for "just as"

Other than the covered points, journalists use it as well to warn the copy editor (and the readers of course) that the (mis)spelling is intentional.

I'm really starting to think Tanje gets paid to sit around on a computer all day and read message boards....

I'm really starting to think Tanje gets paid to sit around on a computer all day and read message boards....

Don't blame us because you took all those exotic dancer classes in high school.

Fil

LOL some of us have jobs that make that easier than others :)