what does that mean? i see it in magazine editorials sometimes and just saw it 4 billion times in a post and im not sure what it means

 

[sic] 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.

chaikwa.

 

I thought [sic] stood for Spelled In-Correctly ....

I always wondered about it myself ... just never took the time to ask or look it up.

PISTOL

 

I always wondered that myself. I was told it may be used when a quote is used, but not the whole quote.

 

i always knew it was something to do when quoting someone and there was a misspelled word, but never knew what it meant

 

"It ain't me that's the moron, it's the other guy."

 

Sic is a Latin word meaning "thus" or "so". In writing, it is italicized and placed within square brackets — [sic] — to indicate that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, or other preceding quoted material is a verbatim reproduction of the original quoted material and is not a transcription error.

This may be used either to show that an uncommon or archaic usage is reported faithfully (for instance, quoting the U.S. Constitution, "The House of Representatives shall chuse [sic] their Speaker...") or to highlight an error, often for the purpose of ridicule or irony (for instance, "Dan Quayle famously changed a student's spelling to 'potatoe' [sic]").

In folk etymology, "sic" is sometimes thought to be an abbreviation of "spelling is correct", "same in copy", "spelled incorrectly", "spelling incompetent" or "said in context", to cite but a few erroneous backronyms.

Sic is also British colloquial talk for 'good'.

Found this here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic

 

yeah, i went and wiki-ed it right after i left the post here.

 

Yall should look up ricer on wikipedia.

 

"A person who modifies a low-powered and/or cheap car using after-market parts to increase its performance or make it look more powerful or sporty than it actually is. "

 

When you hang person is why is the past tense still called "hanged"?

When you hang cloths out on the line to dry, the past tense is "hung".

 

I thought it was to indicate he used his hand to block the turbo intake.

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Are you talking about the thread that I quoted Iker42 in, that now I can't find anywhere?

 

What thread? Look at the blinking red light, please.

 

You're screwing with me, ain't ye?

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It wasn't here last time I looked, but know it is...