Comments on: What Does [sic] Mean?

By: Linz

Linz — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:22:25 +0000

I seem to be the only one who also knows that “[sic]” is also the title of one of Grammy Award Winning heavy metal band Slipknot (often type set as SLIPKnoT) earler songs found on their self titled album Slipknot. although i doubt they were talking about spelling.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:38:39 +0000

as I often say (ad naseum) it’s all about semantics, so boo sucks to you if you think this is waffle

I came here looking the ‘sic a dog on him’ usage, I think the Latin for ‘thus’ actually works in both contexts

btw, anyone who reads the English satirical mag Private Eye is very familiar with it’s slightly sarcastic implication (“yes, that’s what the fool said”) when applied in quoting a politician’s prounouncements

By: Em

Em — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:49:04 +0000

I’m with Diana, totally entertaining and somewhat informative. (Except I am at work.)

By: Mike Lavelle

Mike Lavelle — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:00:52 +0000

@sonyablade… My experience with using single quotes (and this of course is off the main subject now) relates to computer programming. Single quotes usually enclose a single character (a “character” is a standard programming data type). Standard quotes enclose what is known as a “string”, another data type that is basically successive characters, the number of which can be many. The reason for their being is, memory is allocated differently for each data type – a small amount for a single char and a larger amount for a string.

By: Sandokan

Sandokan — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:37:08 +0000

Rod,
If I still have a good memory of my latin classes in middle school back in Africa, here are some explanation of the acronyms you are interested in:

1. i.e. stand for “idem est” meaning same as ;
2. e.g. stand for “exempli gratia” meaning for example ;
3. p.s. stand for “post scriptum” meaning a last note after the main text;
4. sic … this article