What does it mean when people say "touche?" (pronounced tu-shay)?

Question

I always wondered what it really means. Bonus: What does it mean when you are reading an article and in the midst of things, it says, "[SIC]" Thanks!

Answer 1

Touche means point. As in scoring a point.

And according to encyclopedia wiki:
Sic is a Latin word meaning "thus", "so", or "just as that". 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 quoted original and is not a transcription error.

Answer 2

Touche is a french word, and it comes from fencing. When you touch your opponent in the target zone with your foil, that is a touche, and it means you have scored a point. The word is used today to mean just that, you've got something right, or you've scored a point.
Sic simply means that's exactly the way it was written. Sometimes when you quote someone, they have misspelled something, or used a wrong name or something of that sort. When you say (sic) that means you are telling the reader you know it is wrong, but that's what the person you are quoting from said.
When you quote material, you can't change things in it. That is called editing, and edited material isn't a direct quote. So if something is not quite right, you want to let people know that YOU haven't made the mistake.
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Answer 3

Touche is a French word from sword-play. It is something to say to an opponent when they have scored against you. It means "okay, I just took some damage, but I'm still in the game". Kind of the same as "hey man nice shot."
(sic) means that you are making a direct quote from someone who has mis-spelled a word, like this:

Manson said he had had enough of our sarkism (sic).

It tells your reader that you know that the word is not spelled right, but the person you are quoting didn't spell it right.
It might be something in Latin, but I always took it to mean S pelling I s un C orrected.

Answer 4

Touché!, comes from the french word equivalent to " touched " and it was used while fighting with fine swords, during training, and means in a certain way " I've got you"
So, if in the future somebody is talking and you find out that they tell you something unexpected, straight to the point, you can use the french expression " touché/touchée - female - in an inverse way " You've got me"; Same while talking to somebody and feel that the other part watches at you because once in a sudden they realized they were wrong, and that you convinced them.
Another french common expression is " chapeau" that literally means hut, but refers to a fact that somebody does extraordinarily good. In the past people were taking off their hut as a sign of respect, therefore " chapeau" means "wou, I admire you for what you have done"
I hope this little explanation might help you.
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Answer 5

To put it in modern terms, it means 'right back atcha', kind of. Basically if you say something witty or biting, and someone has a comeback, you can say 'touche,' meaning 'you got me back.'

I think it's a fencing term, when two people are dueling a 'touche' is a return strike in response to the first strike. I'm not 100% about this, but would be curious to know if someone can verify that.

Answer 6

[SIC] is normally used in a sentence that includes a quote to show that the misspelling or error was intentional and reported as quoted. It is of latin origin.

Touche means that an effective counter argument has been made. I believe that is comes from the fencing terminology.

Answer 7

Touché is French for touch. Commonly they use the term in fencing, sword fighting, to acknowledge that a hit has been scored.

[sic] means quoted exactly. It’s like when you're quoting someone who says something that isn't correct, it's wrong, but they still said it.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

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What does it mean when people say "touche?" (pronounced tu-shay)?
I always wondered what it really means. Bonus: What does it mean when you are reading an article and in the midst of things, it says, "[SIC]" Thanks!

Answer 10

[sic] means that what came before it has been exactly reproduced, it's usually used when quoting something that was spelled wrong or used in the wrong sense (to alert you that the editor is not stupid, that's just exactly what was said!).

"touché" is a fencing term, meaning basically "take that", and indicating a hit.

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