• zzx@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’ve never understood what [sic] actually means… I am ignorant

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      10 months ago

      it means the one citing did not fix any errors in grammar or spelling. it is cited just as it was written or said.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic

      The Latin adverb sic (pronounced [sɪk]; “thus”, “just as”; in full: sic erat scriptum, “thus was it written”)[1]