Please could somebody explains what [sic] means

[ElfOnTheTopShelf]

Please

[FAQtothefuture]

here

[theinsider]

"thus" as in, "their mistake, not mine" usually

[oregonianabroad]

It means 'the person I am quoting made a grammatical/ spelling mistake and I am so clever, I didn't change it but I want you to know I noticed it.'

[tootiredtothink]

Oh thank the lord someone has asked .

Waiting in anticipation (does that make sense? I am EXTREEMLY scared to be posting in the pedants' corner ).

[tootiredtothink]

Too long to post as per usual .

[LadyOfWaffle]

I love [sic]

[midnightexpress]

Yes. It means 'I am quoting this even though I know it's wrong'. So if you quote something with a apelling mistake in it, you keep the spelling mistake and put [sic] in brackets.

EG

She had written 'I think I'll go their [sic] on holiday' in her essay.

[Mamazon]

yes it is very smug

[midnightexpress]

spelling mistake.

Argh.

[dingdongDOZYMAREishigh]

I always think it means "Spelling Is Crap"

[LadyOfWaffle]

like if you see someone wrote

MN is the best website on he earth

you would quote it

"MN is the best website on he earth" [sic] ie. I know it should be the, not he, I am quoting with their mistake. Kind of.

[ElfOnTheTopShelf]

cor blimey, am not smug enough to use that
Many thanks

[ElfOnTheTopShelf]

I saw it used once and had no idea what it meant, perhaps I shouldn't have thought "what a muppet, unable to spell but getting all uppity with that fancy bracet thingy"

[Quattrocento]

I've used it on here - I need help, don't I?

[ElfOnTheTopShelf]

no, it makes sense now I know what it means!!

[edam]

me too, Quattro. Only once, though!

[PortBlacksandResident]

I'm 35 and only realised that Natch was short for Naturally last week. Before that i thought it meant 'eek'.

[FattipuffsandThinnifers]

It means 'said in context'.

(I'm probably missing out on a joke here aren't I - are we supposed to be coming up with witty/scathing answers? )

[midnightexpress]

Erm, well, I think it actually means 'thus', as theinsider said earlier on, fattipuffs. I hate to be pedantic, but we are in pedants' corner