When someone puts (sic) in a sentence, what does it mean?

Answer 1

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

You use it in a direct quote, when the quote has a grammatical or spelling error and you want the reader to know that you know it's wrong, but you're quoting the original speaker or writer exactly.

Here is an example:

Today my student wrote "A relation is a set of cordinets (sic)." It should be coordinates, but I am quoting him exactly.

Answer 3

sic = in writing it means that the word or phrase is reproduced by the author or printed exactly as it was quoted originally. It may be that the word or phrase is misspelled or in a dialect.

Answer 4

It's used when someone is quoting a source that may have misspelled a word or been grammatically incorrect. It means intentionally as written.

Answer 5

The word is not spelled right, good luck.