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# What does that '(sic)' mean?
I often see it and can never work it out.

It's something to do with 'intentional' isn't it?
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Mon 11 Apr 2005, 5:38, archived)
#
Spelling
In-
Correct.
(Robot. Home of the greasy bucket., Mon 11 Apr 2005, 5:40, archived)
# Surely
That would just be (si)

Ok, thanks.
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Mon 11 Apr 2005, 5:42, archived)
# it doesn't stand for anything
It's from a Latin word.

EDIT: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic
(I helped save b3ta! Sexy Picard 2000, Mon 11 Apr 2005, 5:45, archived)
# What word?
Am I being a little too inquisitive?

Edit: Right, thanks again.
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Mon 11 Apr 2005, 5:46, archived)
# Sic transit gloria mundi
 
as they say.
 
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Mon 11 Apr 2005, 6:41, archived)
# Spelt Incorrectly.
The person has spelt it like that for a reason.
(I helped save b3ta! AzToTheRescue The arsehole formally known as Az The S slur, Mon 11 Apr 2005, 5:41, archived)
# The best I could come up with was
"Said in context". But in so many texts, it just didn't work. It did for some though.
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Mon 11 Apr 2005, 5:43, archived)
# more or less
used to indicate that the "misspelling" is actually how it is inteded to be spelled. often used in referencing to indicate that the author knows that something is incorrect, and wasn't the one who made the mistake.
edit - I don't think it's limited to spelling mistakes, they are just far more common than grammatical mistakes.
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Mon 11 Apr 2005, 5:41, archived)
# Exellant (sic)
Thanks.

Ahem... was that ^ a little to predictable?
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Mon 11 Apr 2005, 5:42, archived)
# It's used in quotations
to indicate that this is what the person actually said/wrote, but the writer knows it's wrong and is using the (sic) to basically say "Fuck off you pedants, I know this is wrong, but the dumbass used it and I have to because it's a quote. So stick your whining letters of correction up your excessively tight sphincters."
(Tetsuo, Mon 11 Apr 2005, 6:37, archived)