Re: Radio trailers for DAB

John Porcella wrote:
> <steve41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1129224024.246820.310700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Richard L wrote:
>>> In message <7Ng3f.2394$F4.369@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> "Frank" <fra@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>> What does "sic" mean, abbreviations are great if
>>>> everyone knows what they mean!
>>>
>>> "Sic" is not an abbreviation. It is a Latin word meaning thus or so,
>>> and is used to indicate that the source quoted is quoted accurately,
>>> however improbable or mistaken that might seem. It's listed in
>>> English dictionaries and should be familiar to anyone who's capable
>>> of reading, say, what used to be called a broad*** newspaper.
>>
>>
>> I didn't know what it meant until a few years ago, and I can
>> obviously read a frigging "serious" newspaper.
>
> Why is that fact obvious?


Well, you've said in another post that you read the Daily Telegraph, so
I presume you are capable of reading it once you've bought it. And I'm
obviously far more intelligent than you are, so I am, therefore, capable
of reading the Daily Telegraph, which is a broad*** paper.


>> Basically, you're letting your snobbery get in the way of the issue.
>> You probably went to a public school (private, public, whatever),
>> where you were probably learnt Latin.
>
> Clearly, you went to a state school!


So?


> The vast majority of people (I think
>> you refer to them as the "great unwashed") went to comprehensive
>> schools, where Latin either wasn't taught or people chose not to take
>> it, and rarely if ever come across the word.
>
> I went to a comprehensive and never studied Latin as it was not on
> offer. I know what 'sic' means.



I'm not saying that going to comprehensive schools implies that you
won't understand what 'sic' means. The issue I had was with Richard L's
assertion that if you're capable of reading a broad*** paper then you
should know what it means, and I said that that doesn't necessarily
follow, which I stand by.


>> I must apologise for my disgraceful lack of knowledge of Latin. It
>> won't happen again.
>
> Good! Now write out "sic = thus" one hundred times! 8-)


It doesn't mean that. The correct description of when it should be used
has already been given in this thread, and it is used when someone is
quoting text verbatim even though they're aware that there's an error,
such as a spelling mistake.


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