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Since I've started using the internet regularly, I've noticed this little phrase appears in countless posts and e-mails. Will someone please enlighten me as to what "(sic)" means?
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Locke Taelos
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Hmmm...
I always thought that abbreviations were kinda jewish. I mean why do we need em at all? Is it that difficult to type in, "spelling incorrect"? Well I suppose if you must abbreviate something like that, you might as well use the same abbreviation your english teacher used in 3rd grade. SP! SP, always meant that there was a spelling error.
Ah well, you bad people! You're rebelling against your 3rd grade english teacher. Sure mine was an anal retentive joke, but hey, she still taught me something. =D
"I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.
I always thought that abbreviations were kinda jewish. I mean why do we need em at all? Is it that difficult to type in, "spelling incorrect"? Well I suppose if you must abbreviate something like that, you might as well use the same abbreviation your english teacher used in 3rd grade. SP! SP, always meant that there was a spelling error.
Ah well, you bad people! You're rebelling against your 3rd grade english teacher. Sure mine was an anal retentive joke, but hey, she still taught me something. =D
"I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.
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RE: Spelling InCorrect (N/T)
Thank you for clearing that up, though it seems to me that (sic)'s use implies "I know that I spelled this wrong, but I'm much too busy/lazy to look it up in the dictionary". Then again, I suppose it serves it's purpose, just as long as someone is willing to explain it us newbies. Thanks again.
Thank you for clearing that up, though it seems to me that (sic)'s use implies "I know that I spelled this wrong, but I'm much too busy/lazy to look it up in the dictionary". Then again, I suppose it serves it's purpose, just as long as someone is willing to explain it us newbies. Thanks again.
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RE: Hmmm...
You're right. We don't need abbreviations, but people will keep using them anyway. When you consider that many people on the internet say things like "how u duin? r u ok?", the use of (sic) isn't so bad. Talk like that is okay if you speak very little English, but many people use it because they think it's "cool". That is not the word I'd use for it.
You're right. We don't need abbreviations, but people will keep using them anyway. When you consider that many people on the internet say things like "how u duin? r u ok?", the use of (sic) isn't so bad. Talk like that is okay if you speak very little English, but many people use it because they think it's "cool". That is not the word I'd use for it.
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Locke Taelos
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Well...
I shouldn't have even said that really. I mean, just because I'm anal retentive about doing things the hard way is no reason to complain about it.
But I dunno, it took me like two years to realize that imho meant, "in my humble opinion". Thats when I start questioning abbreviations. =)
"I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.
I shouldn't have even said that really. I mean, just because I'm anal retentive about doing things the hard way is no reason to complain about it.
But I dunno, it took me like two years to realize that imho meant, "in my humble opinion". Thats when I start questioning abbreviations. =)
"I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.
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RE: Well...
You have a point. I guess since complaining about it isn't going to actually DO anything about it, I'll just drop it.
Since you brought it up, I haven't seen 'imho' before. I would have thought it meant "I'm a ho".
It's a good thing you told me what it meant, otherwise it would have caused great confusion (and potential embarassment).
And by the way, that is the perfect quote to use on this site.
You have a point. I guess since complaining about it isn't going to actually DO anything about it, I'll just drop it.
Since you brought it up, I haven't seen 'imho' before. I would have thought it meant "I'm a ho".
It's a good thing you told me what it meant, otherwise it would have caused great confusion (and potential embarassment).
And by the way, that is the perfect quote to use on this site.
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Hey thanks!
Thanks for the quote compliment. I can't remember where I found ol' Einstein's quote at, but in either case, I remembered it.
Imho, yeah I thought that at first too. I guess things just get really out of hand.
And on a personal note...
I hate the Tennesse Titans. =/
"I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.
Thanks for the quote compliment. I can't remember where I found ol' Einstein's quote at, but in either case, I remembered it.
Imho, yeah I thought that at first too. I guess things just get really out of hand.
And on a personal note...
I hate the Tennesse Titans. =/
"I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.
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RE: Hmmm...
>I always thought that abbreviations were
>kinda jewish. I mean why
>do we need em at
>all? Is it that difficult
>to type in, "spelling incorrect"?
>Well I suppose if you
>must abbreviate something like that,
>you might as well use
>the same abbreviation your english
>teacher used in 3rd grade.
>SP! SP, always meant that
>there was a spelling error.
Well the abbreviations are mostly so that it doesn't interrupt the sentence too much. If you put an "(sp?)" after a word, you're letting people know that you know that it may be spelled wrong, but don't want to make a big deal of it.
What I can't stand however is the shortening of words like "you," "are," "your" and especially "don't" ("dun").
-Xotor-
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>I always thought that abbreviations were
>kinda jewish. I mean why
>do we need em at
>all? Is it that difficult
>to type in, "spelling incorrect"?
>Well I suppose if you
>must abbreviate something like that,
>you might as well use
>the same abbreviation your english
>teacher used in 3rd grade.
>SP! SP, always meant that
>there was a spelling error.
Well the abbreviations are mostly so that it doesn't interrupt the sentence too much. If you put an "(sp?)" after a word, you're letting people know that you know that it may be spelled wrong, but don't want to make a big deal of it.
What I can't stand however is the shortening of words like "you," "are," "your" and especially "don't" ("dun").
-Xotor-
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Locke Taelos
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Hmmm...
What r u talking about, Xotor? I luv Fallout a lot, dun u? ^_^
Yeah, me 2. Hehehe.
The worst thing other than people who type like that are the ones that put those annoying smiley faces resembling anime characters.
<--- Smiley.
=) <--- Better smiley in my opinion.
^_^, -_-, -_^, @_@ <--- Jewish smilies.
I have no idea why I'm even using Jewish as a negative adjective. It used to be the rage whenever I was in high school I guess. Sorry if anyone's offended. Although, actually, I don't really care. =D
"I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.
What r u talking about, Xotor? I luv Fallout a lot, dun u? ^_^
Yeah, me 2. Hehehe.
The worst thing other than people who type like that are the ones that put those annoying smiley faces resembling anime characters.
<--- Smiley.=) <--- Better smiley in my opinion.
^_^, -_-, -_^, @_@ <--- Jewish smilies.
I have no idea why I'm even using Jewish as a negative adjective. It used to be the rage whenever I was in high school I guess. Sorry if anyone's offended. Although, actually, I don't really care. =D
"I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.
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RE: Hmmm...
[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Jan-12-03 AT 11:48PM (GMT)[p]XOTOR
You make an interesting point. I hadn't thought about it's effect on sentence flow.
It would clutter the page a bit if you inserted "I'm not sure if I spelled this right, but don't harass me too much about it" after each misspelling.
I'm not bothered by (sic) and logical abbreviations, just the ones that are stupid and make a sentence illegible:
r u ok cuz i didnt no etc... You seem to agree with me on those.
An occasional 'cuz' is okay, but I've seen entire paragraphs written in this fashion.
LOCKE TAELOS
I don't really have a problem with the use of faces, just understanding what they mean. How exactly am I supposed to know what a slant eye and a regular eye over an o means? ;o
Also, I never associated them with anime character, but if I did I might have liked them more (being an anime fan).
[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Jan-12-03 AT 11:48PM (GMT)[p]XOTOR
You make an interesting point. I hadn't thought about it's effect on sentence flow.
It would clutter the page a bit if you inserted "I'm not sure if I spelled this right, but don't harass me too much about it" after each misspelling.
I'm not bothered by (sic) and logical abbreviations, just the ones that are stupid and make a sentence illegible:
r u ok cuz i didnt no etc... You seem to agree with me on those.
An occasional 'cuz' is okay, but I've seen entire paragraphs written in this fashion.
LOCKE TAELOS
I don't really have a problem with the use of faces, just understanding what they mean. How exactly am I supposed to know what a slant eye and a regular eye over an o means? ;o
Also, I never associated them with anime character, but if I did I might have liked them more (being an anime fan).
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RE: Hmmm...
>r u ok cuz i didnt
>no etc... You seem to
>agree with me on those.
Oo yeah, I hate the use of "no" for "know." That one really bugs me.
-Xotor-
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>r u ok cuz i didnt
>no etc... You seem to
>agree with me on those.
Oo yeah, I hate the use of "no" for "know." That one really bugs me.
-Xotor-
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Locke Taelos
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Hehe.
Don't get me wrong, I like anime. I just think the smilies are a bit sissified...is that a word? =)
"I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.
Don't get me wrong, I like anime. I just think the smilies are a bit sissified...is that a word? =)
"I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.
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RE: Hehe.
Yea thats a word or at least I've heard it used in normal conversation more than 3 times(course those were "football fans")
Yea thats a word or at least I've heard it used in normal conversation more than 3 times(course those were "football fans")
DarkUnderlord
Water Chip? Been There, Done That
God damned you lot are a bunch of fucktards. I'm pretty sure sic is Latin.
sic 1 [sk]
adv. so or thus: inserted in brackets in a written or printed text to indicate that an odd or questionable reading is what was actually written or printed.
[Latin]
sic 2 [sk]
vb. sics, sicking, sicked.
(tr.)
1. to turn on or attack: used only in commands, as to a dog.
2. to urge (a dog) to attack.
[dialect variant of {seek}]
sic 3 [sk]
determiner, adv. a Scot. word for {such}.
sic passim Latin. (sk pæsm) a phrase used in printed works to indicate that a word, spelling, etc., occurs in the same form throughout.
[literally: thus everywhere]
Yup. As I said, pretty sure. It's often used in newspaper reports and the like. Or, say I get a letter from someone like this:
"May the Lod bless your soul."
I type that up as: "May the Lod (sic) bless your soul."
Indicating that "Lod" is how it was spelt on what I'm copying and that I didn't make the error myself. That's what sic is.
It's like AD. It doesn't stand for "After Death" it stands for "Anno Domini" (or something like that) which is Latin for "In the year of our Lord". Like the way sic doesn't stand for "Spelt InCorrectly", even though it's basically what it is.
/End Lesson.
Speaking of fucktards, I have a video issue I have to sort out...
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sic 1 [sk]
adv. so or thus: inserted in brackets in a written or printed text to indicate that an odd or questionable reading is what was actually written or printed.
[Latin]
sic 2 [sk]
vb. sics, sicking, sicked.
(tr.)
1. to turn on or attack: used only in commands, as to a dog.
2. to urge (a dog) to attack.
[dialect variant of {seek}]
sic 3 [sk]
determiner, adv. a Scot. word for {such}.
sic passim Latin. (sk pæsm) a phrase used in printed works to indicate that a word, spelling, etc., occurs in the same form throughout.
[literally: thus everywhere]
Yup. As I said, pretty sure. It's often used in newspaper reports and the like. Or, say I get a letter from someone like this:
"May the Lod bless your soul."
I type that up as: "May the Lod (sic) bless your soul."
Indicating that "Lod" is how it was spelt on what I'm copying and that I didn't make the error myself. That's what sic is.
It's like AD. It doesn't stand for "After Death" it stands for "Anno Domini" (or something like that) which is Latin for "In the year of our Lord". Like the way sic doesn't stand for "Spelt InCorrectly", even though it's basically what it is.
/End Lesson.
Speaking of fucktards, I have a video issue I have to sort out...
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Mr. Dark Underling
Thank you for the wonderful lesson on '(sic)'.
As long as we're talking about definitions, I don't know what the official definition of 'fucktard' is, but I'm pretty sure it isn't:
a person who doesn't know what '(sic)' means
Thank you for the wonderful lesson on '(sic)'.
As long as we're talking about definitions, I don't know what the official definition of 'fucktard' is, but I'm pretty sure it isn't:
a person who doesn't know what '(sic)' means
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Locke Taelos
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What the horse!
j00 call me a what? hahaha i kix0r j00 aRs3!
Anyways I think someone forgot that unlike some morons whom I'll let remain anonymous, some of us were trying to have a civil conversation here without insulting one another.
"I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.
j00 call me a what? hahaha i kix0r j00 aRs3!
Anyways I think someone forgot that unlike some morons whom I'll let remain anonymous, some of us were trying to have a civil conversation here without insulting one another.
"I don't know what World War 3 will be fought with, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.
Briosafreak
Lived Through the Heat Death
RE:---
Well, first i have to say that SIC is indeed latin, i haven`t posted yet because i can`t find the exact meaning myself, but i believe that DarkUnderlord is right about that. Second DarkUnderlord should have thought that no matter how stressed he is about his PC, there`s no reason to start acting like that, particularly with people he doesn`t know since he was out for some time. Right Darky?
Well, first i have to say that SIC is indeed latin, i haven`t posted yet because i can`t find the exact meaning myself, but i believe that DarkUnderlord is right about that. Second DarkUnderlord should have thought that no matter how stressed he is about his PC, there`s no reason to start acting like that, particularly with people he doesn`t know since he was out for some time. Right Darky?
DarkUnderlord
Water Chip? Been There, Done That
RE:---
Sorry about that. It was just how you were going on about it. Namely:
-- though it seems to me that (sic)'s use implies "I know that I spelled this wrong, but I'm much too busy/lazy to look it up in the dictionary".
-- I always thought that abbreviations were kinda jewish. I mean why do we need em at all? Is it that difficult to type in, "spelling incorrect"? Well I suppose if you must abbreviate something like that, you might as well use the same abbreviation your english teacher used in 3rd grade. SP! SP, always meant that there was a spelling error.
... and so on and so on. Considering all you had to do in the first place was jump to: www.dictionary.com
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Sorry about that. It was just how you were going on about it. Namely:
-- though it seems to me that (sic)'s use implies "I know that I spelled this wrong, but I'm much too busy/lazy to look it up in the dictionary".
-- I always thought that abbreviations were kinda jewish. I mean why do we need em at all? Is it that difficult to type in, "spelling incorrect"? Well I suppose if you must abbreviate something like that, you might as well use the same abbreviation your english teacher used in 3rd grade. SP! SP, always meant that there was a spelling error.
... and so on and so on. Considering all you had to do in the first place was jump to: www.dictionary.com
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ON USING A DICTIONARY
You gain 500 experience points for making me swallow my own words.
I can't help but see the irony of having accused people of being too lazy to use a dictionary, when this entire incident was spawned from me being to lazy to use a dictionary.
ALSO, WHAT'S A FUCKTARD?
I would look that one up, but I doubt I'd find it in a dictionary.
At first glance would it would appear that 'fucktard' is a contraction of 'fucking retard'.
But when said aloud, it comes out as 'fucked hard' (in a seemingly unpleasant fashion).
Which one is it?
P.S. I'm not being sarcastic. I would genuinely like to know.
ON USING A DICTIONARY
You gain 500 experience points for making me swallow my own words.
I can't help but see the irony of having accused people of being too lazy to use a dictionary, when this entire incident was spawned from me being to lazy to use a dictionary.
ALSO, WHAT'S A FUCKTARD?
I would look that one up, but I doubt I'd find it in a dictionary.
At first glance would it would appear that 'fucktard' is a contraction of 'fucking retard'.
But when said aloud, it comes out as 'fucked hard' (in a seemingly unpleasant fashion).
Which one is it?
P.S. I'm not being sarcastic. I would genuinely like to know.