[sic]

[shazzap]

[SIC] what does this mean/stand for. I have seen it in a lot of responses, whe people give their opinion, on news threads etc.

[Carole]

From the Free Dictionary:

Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally.

[davem]

I'm pretty sure it is - "that was how it was written" or its supposed to be.... it is often used when you quote someone else .......

[shazzap]

Thank you both.

[Corrie 3]

I thought it was what you did when you had far too many on a Friday night....[sic] !!!!!

C3..............:roll::roll:

[RecQuery]

I mainly use it when I'm quoting someone and they have spelt something wrong or when I purposely spell something incorrectly for whatever reason.

[shazzap]

I mainly use it when I'm quoting someone and they have spelt something wrong or when I purposely spell something incorrectly for whatever reason.

So are the letters abbreviations.

[RecQuery]

So are the letters abbreviations.

Yeah. It's short for 'sic erat scriptum' which is latin for 'thus was it written'.

[shazzap]

Yeah. It's short for 'sic erat scriptum' which is latin for 'thus was it written'.

Thank you. You learn something new, every day.:)

[2little2late]

I always use it when I want to puke. Then I add a 'k' on the end of it.

[John Little]

Stet!......

[Torvaig]

Stet!......

Leaving instructions for your stenographer John? It's a while since I saw that one....

[shazzap]

Leaving instructions for your stenographer John? It's a while since I saw that one....

Have not a clue, what it means. I could Google it, and pretend to be the fountain of knowledge, i suppose.

[John Little]

It's Latin for 'let it stand' according to most Google searches but I prefer

'Let it be
Let it be
Let it be
Let it beee--eee
There will be an answer,Let it beee-'

[shazzap]

It's Latin for 'let it stand' according to most Google searches but I prefer

'Let it be
Let it be
Let it be
Let it beee--eee
There will be an answer,Let it beee-'

I can sort of hear you, from here. :eek:My advice is. Don't, give up your day job.[lol]

[RecQuery]

Sadly I know all those copywriting and proof reading terms because I use LaTeX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX) (pronounce lay-tech, no it's not what you're thinking) to typeset documents and I did some reading on the whole thing a while back.

[Corrie 3]

Don't, give up your day job.[lol]
Too late, he already has!!!!

C3.......:roll:;)

[shazzap]

Sadly I know all those copywriting and proof reading terms because I use LaTeX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX) (pronounce lay-tech, no it's not what you're thinking) to typeset documents and I did some reading on the whole thing a while back.

Quick off the mark there. But you now have spoilt, all the fun.;)

[John Little]

Oh I don't know.op.citLoc.citIbidMakes a person feel sic....

[pmcd]

From "The Complete Molesworth", a mnemonic regarding the "learning"of Latin -

"Caesar adsum jam forte
Brutus aderat:
Caesar sic in omnibus
Brutus sic in at."

[John Little]

Congratulatum on eriditium PMCDius
Your poem is appropriatum
Me toastus I am chokius
Et Coffeeius splutterus!

[Torvaig]

Thanks for the chuckle you two! :lol:

[RecQuery]

Omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina; quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur.

[John Little]

That is true.

[pmcd]

As my old School motto (Reading School, Berks.) had it "Ars Mercede Viget", translated by generations of junior Latin Scholars, despite the best efforts of their Masters, as

"We get Art on Wednesdays"

[sassylass]

I always think of sic as an acronym for spelling incorrect.

[John Little]

Sic transit gloria mundi.

translation;

There goes Gloria Monday in a Transit.