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#251 Sundered Angel

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Posted 08 January 2004 - 07:45 AM

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Originally posted by Avatara:
Carinae, the European who kept sleeping with everyone.

Your post was missing an [sic], I believe.

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Posted 08 January 2004 - 09:57 AM

That warrants a *blink*.

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Posted 08 January 2004 - 03:26 PM

You know, that makes me want to ask:

what does [sic] mean? I see it everywhere.

As for Carinae: I saw him post on JC the other day. The last ATT topic that he posted on was "Viginity". He said that he hated sleeping with vigins because they bleed everywhere, and then you have to burn the sheets. The person who posted next (I believe that their name started with an "a", but I am not sure) said "I wondered when you would find this topic."

That was all from memory.

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Posted 08 January 2004 - 06:40 PM

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Originally posted by lotsofblackflags:
The person who posted next (I believe that their name started with an "a", but I am not sure) said "I wondered when you would find this topic."

I thought Zorty said that.

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#255 Avatara

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Posted 08 January 2004 - 08:02 PM

Carinae posted here in the "Happy New Year" topic in the past 36 hours.

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Posted 08 January 2004 - 11:50 PM

Your right, and hes post wasn't as spammy. I am afraid I might have to go to despreate measures.

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Posted 09 January 2004 - 12:07 AM

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what does [sic] mean? I see it everywhere.

[sic] is a statement that an editor or writer can place into a direct quote from someone or some source that shows that a misspelling within the quoted material is, in fact, a misspelling in the quoted material and not an editing (or spell checker error nowadays) mistake.

For example, if you were editing a car magazine and you saw in a to-be-published letter to the editor that someone had written, "I once saw a Studabaker in Reno which caused my head to damn near get eaten by a jumbo prawn in my spinach salad!" you would publish it as "I once saw a Studabaker [sic] in Reno which caused my head to damn near get eaten by a jumbo prawn in my spinach salad!" Misspelling "Studebaker" would be quite a stupid thing to do if you were an editor of a car magazine and would probably end up with you being fired from a cannon into the Sun, so you would want to place the [sic] in there in order to show that the writer of the letter was the super-dumbass and not you.

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Posted 09 January 2004 - 01:00 AM

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Your [sic] right, and hes [sic] post wasn't as spammy. I am afraid I might have to go to despreate [sic] measures.

You could always dress up as a ballerina...

Pufer: like that?

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Posted 09 January 2004 - 03:15 PM

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You could always dress up as a ballerina...

Pufer: like [sic] that?

I think so.

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Posted 10 January 2004 - 11:47 AM

Exactly like that.

Like many journalistic devices, [sic] has found its way into common usage. These days, it's used not only to signal spelling mistakes, but also grammatical errors and even dubious or incorrect statements, in your own as well as other's language. For instance -

µ, a sparing yet educational poster [sic].

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Posted 11 January 2004 - 09:51 PM

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....µ, a sparing yet educational poster [sic]......

Oh, do tell old boy......

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Posted 13 January 2004 - 11:56 PM

Where is µ anyway?

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Posted 14 January 2004 - 08:40 AM

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Where is µ anyway?

Hiding from me.

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Posted 14 January 2004 - 09:24 AM

I swallowed her.

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Posted 14 January 2004 - 11:33 AM

At least she didn't swallow you.

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Posted 14 January 2004 - 12:04 PM

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At least she didn't swallow you.

No comment.

I was actually wondering where she ran of to...

Maybe I scared her away (note, my return marks her exit).

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Posted 14 January 2004 - 06:43 PM

She didn't post a farewell post, therefore a question mark hangs over her return.

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Posted 14 January 2004 - 06:47 PM

She'll be back.....something about wonky computers.

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Posted 14 January 2004 - 06:53 PM

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She didn't post a farewell post, therefore a question mark hangs over her return.

Hopefully its not so huge that it'll fall down and crush people.

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Posted 15 January 2004 - 12:30 AM

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She'll be back.....something about wonky computers.

Well, it might just be me, but I wouldn't trust any computer company named Wonky. I'd think that they'd be prone to screw up and not allow access to our lovely little community here. Posted Image

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Posted 15 January 2004 - 02:33 PM

MY computer says that Wonkey is a jerk. They had a fight a few years back, and my comp never got over it.

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Posted 15 January 2004 - 09:25 PM

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Hopefully its not so huge that it'll fall down and crush people.

No, I think it's her actual return which is more likely to do that.

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Posted 15 January 2004 - 11:33 PM

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Well, it might just be me, but I wouldn't trust any computer company named Wonky. I'd think that they'd be prone to screw up and not allow access to our lovely little community here.

The lack of capitals were meant to suggest that "wonky" was not intended to be taken for a brand name.

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Posted 17 January 2004 - 12:53 AM

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Originally posted by The Journalist:
The lack of capitals were meant to suggest that "wonky" was not intended to be taken for a brand name.

My inclusion of a winking smilie face in the post was meant to convey that I intended for my comment to be humourous and cause much merriment and hysterical laughing amongst the huddled masses. Now they're all going to hang themselves because you took away the one glimmer of hope left in their lives. You, my good sir, suck Spam. Posted Image

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Posted 18 January 2004 - 10:13 AM

Hmm...you call me "good sir" then say i suck Spam. Right. Posted Image

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