Re: Radio trailers for DAB


"DAB sounds worse than FM" <dab.is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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,

Not really! I bought it for somebody as a favour and saw the headline.

so
> I presume you are capable of reading it once you've bought it. And I'm
> obviously far more intelligent than you are,

Really?

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.

I know.


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John Porcella


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