Conference thebay::joyoflex

"Sic" can be used in normal, unquoted text.  Usually, it does not indicate an
intentional error, but an intentional non-error that might look like an error.
When in unquoted text, it is appropriate to use parentheses, not brackets,
unless there is another reason for using brackets.


				-- edp 

Re: 130.1

Source please?  The Chicago Manual of Style makes no mention of your usage
of "sic."  It also says that "sic" goes in brackets, not parentheses.

JP

re .0:

People use "sic" that way because there are those who, through humorlessness or
zealous nit-picking (and generally both), will decide that the "error" is
legitimate and flood the writer's mailbox with smug little treatises on the
proper use or spelling of whatever it was that was in error. Just about anyone
who has a dry sense of humor has had this happen. Personally, I think one of the
intents of dry humor is that some people won't get it, so I try to avoid it when
possible. I'm not fond of the little :-) smiley faces either, but I've caved in
on that. 

	Jon

			I think "sic" is supposed to be italicized as well as
		put in brackets.
		   	I like to use it when paraphrasing people who use what I
	  	consider to be sexist language constructs, like this:  "Man
		[sic] and his [sic] mind have made this world a wonderful place
		for all mankind [sic]."
				<_Jym_>

Re .4

Yes, 'sic' should be italicized as well as enclosed within a pair of brackets,
      ---
but these two typographic conventions are for different reasons; viz., the

brackets indicate that the writer is inserting his (or her) own comments

into a quotation of someone else, while the italics indicate a word in a

foreign language.  



Dave C.

Perhaps we should resort to using "[_sic_]" in the noting convention of 
putting the underscores *around* something that we would prefer to 
underline but cannot actually underline due to the combined limitations 
of the hardware and software.  (Of course, we are using the convention 
of underlining material that would be italicized, but our hardware and 
software restricts us from doing that, as well.)

Does this mean that <_Jym_> should be read as <Jym>?  

Tom

Not a bad convention, Tom.  I'll try to start italicizing-by-underlining-by-
surrounding-and-intermediate-underscores the common Latin and French words
and abbreviations I use; _e.g.,_ '_e.g._'

What's the convention for     ^ punctuation following an italicized-by-
underlining item?  Does the comma go before the terminal underscore, or
after it?

Dave C.

    In English English, [sic] is used when quoting a piece of text written
    by someone else and points out a typographic error such as a mispelling
    or the use of a word that sounds the same as the correct word but
    is spelt differently. The word sic is, of course, Latin for thus.

    It's used to show the original error either (a) when the original
    error created humor or misunderstanding or (b) by a hostile editor
    who want to show the mistakes in the original. Otherwise, a friendly editor
    would simply replace the mispelled word with the correct one in
    editorial brackets.                                         
    
    	Rick
    	Merrill
    

      Re .8, .9

      'Mispelling' [_sic_] and 'mispelled' [_sic_] were misspelled.
      
      Re .9
      
      I believe there is a third reason: (c) when there is some reason
      why the original text, with its original mistakes, is desired.
      
      Dave C.