when you are reading a book and in the pasage it has the abreviated letters (sic) written what does this mean???
2007-08-02 05:19:30 · 12 answers · asked by emperor_of_the_north_pole 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It kind of means the author is saying "yes I know it is wrong, but it's meant to be like that". It's Latin and means thus, but as it is usually applied to indicate a misspelling is intentional I remind myself what is means by using the mnemonic 'spelling is correct'.
2007-08-02 05:27:03 · answer #1 · answered by Nix 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sic. - usually written in italics means that the word preceeding is spelt incorrectly but it was like that in the original text and it's not your typo.
Say, a newspaper or a book is quoting a letter from someone and the letter writer got some of their spellings wrong, then the journalist/author would employ 'sic' to show the reader that the spelling mistakes came from the letter.
2007-08-02 10:10:29 · answer #2 · answered by elflaeda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sic is a Latin word, originally sicut meaning "thus", "so", or "just as that". In writing, it is placed within square brackets and usually italicized — [sic] — to indicate that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, punctuation, and/or other preceding quoted material has been reproduced verbatim from the quoted original and is not a transcription error.
2007-08-02 05:29:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
[sic] is a shortened form of the word [sicut] in latin.
It means any of the following.
Thus.
so
Just as that.
For more detail visit Wickpedia.
2007-08-02 05:31:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means that the previous word or words are either spelt wrongly or used wrongly by somebody else but the writer is recording what he saw or heard literally.
2007-08-02 05:30:41 · answer #5 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's Latin. It refers to a term or a quote that is seemingly incorrect, but is in fact accurate as taken from the source.
2007-08-02 05:24:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
It means that the misspelling or, ungrammatical phrase is the way it was in the original quote, and not the author's misspelling, or lack of grammar knowledge.
2007-08-02 05:22:55 · answer #7 · answered by Joshua B 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It is a literary guide placed near the beginning of the book,
sic (story is crap).
2007-08-02 05:26:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think the literal meaning is 'as written'
2007-08-02 05:31:30 · answer #9 · answered by ☞H.Potter☜ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"As quoted" . Usually, someone's misquotation.
2007-08-02 05:22:07 · answer #10 · answered by captbullshot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋