HAHAHA I found this site many moons ago and had to come back to see if the thread was still going, I love it =)

LOL — Never in the field of human internet use has one acronym produced such a multi-year discussion. :)

Actually, I’m still none the wiser whether it IS an acronym or an abbreviation :-)

Ba[sic]ally this has to be the best and also the most pointless site ever.

May it reign for years to come!

Long live the [sic] thread!!!

This is a remarkable thread. TKBR0WN is close to the mark with the ‘Sic is actually a virus written by a Indonesian teenager…’ analysis. However, [sic] is NOT a pc virus, but INSTEAD a wetware [sic] virus whose function it is to reduce wetware efficiency by wasting the wetware’s limited lifespan. As evidenced by its longevity, it is becoming quite effective at its intended task, and by about 2021, will become fatal to wetware instance that happens upon the thread and tries to parse its entire length. And on top of it, the virus never quite reveals its nature to the host [sic].

4 years later and I finally find out what [sic] means. Thank the heavens for stupid old threads. Sad to see GWB is still in though.

You have to use [sic] a great deal when you interview rappers and college liberal arts students.

32 from Canada

I cant believe how many people have stumbled across this thread and spent the time reading it and most[sic] not being none the wiser.
Too many smartasses and not enough busy people in this world I guess. Get back to work you lazy asses!!

Well, I too can’t beleive I read this whole post. I’m glad the definition I was actually looking for was somewhere in it, although it would be nice if it was the first post instead of that one about barcodes which obviously isn’t what we were thinking of. Of course then you might not keep reading in the hopes of finding the alternate definition you really wanted. Then if we were really smart we would have just gone to meriam-webster.com in the first place and just avoided this whole thread in the first place cause sometimes, just sometimes ya[sic] (there I got my requisite [sic] in there) can’t google away your problems, at least not efficiently. Sometimes you run into a pointless thread that leaves you wondering why the hell am I reading this. Why are you still reading this anyway? You already found the definition like ten posts ago. Oh yeah, fyi: I’m 26 and while I’ve come across [sic] on several occasions I finally decidered to figure out what the hell it means while reading some comments about The Outlaw Josey Wales on imdb.com, specifically “At the end of the movie, when he saw Wales had given up his ways of Death [sic Ten Bears] he knew he could let Wales live in peace and leave the war behind himself.” Which, I beleive I’ve already seen but I’ll have to watch it again cause it sounds pretty damn good.

O.K… I’ll bite… I too was looking for the definition of [sic]. So here I am, half an hour later posting on a site that I will probably never visit again. Never-the-less, I found the thread a stimulating read and found myself smiling and even audibly laughing. Thanks.

[sic] = sites increasing confusion

You should change thing to link to the comment explaining the meaning as being “Spoken in Context”.

Nice to see this page is still getting hits. I periodically check back, after finding it about six months ago. Now that I have a website, i’m going to make a [sic] page. Not right now though, as i’m slightly innebriated. Post again soon ; )

I made a doodie in my pants. The smell is making me [sic].

Great site! I didn’t take the time to read the entire thread, but I think I now know what “sic” means. My question now is thus: What is the proper punctuation? I usually see it in parenthesis (sic), but I have seen it in quotes “sic”? Which is correct?

[sic] it should be in brackets!

things are gonna change i can feel it

sic is a common word among snowboarders with the same meaning as “awesome” or “rad.” For instance, if my buddy just pulled a huge method air and i might exclaim, “Dude, that was fuckin siiiiiiic!!!”

There doesn’t seem to be any reference here to it’s use to highlight an intended pun. This kind of sloppiness makes me sick. (sic)

you guys should get your dicks out and use them instead of talking about sic — whatever this crap is!

just read most of this post. if you click on the “what does sic mean” at the top of the page it will take you to the definition

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

sic
8 entries found for sic.
To select an entry, click on it.
sic[1]sic[2,transitive verb]sic[3,adverb]sic passimet sic de similibussic itur ad astrasic semper tyrannissic transit gloria mundi

Main Entry: 3sic
Pronunciation: ‘sik, ‘sEk
Function: adverb
Etymology: Latin, so, thus — more at SO
: intentionally so written — used after a printed word or passage to indicate that it is intended exactly as printed or to indicate that it exactly reproduces an original <said he=”” seed=”” [sic]=”” it=”” all=”“>

I had to read an english log of four years to learn the meaning of [sic]! I just can’t believe[sic] it!

I’m 18, and a little relieved I checked the meaning of [sic] while I can still use it to piss off teachers. I’ve actually seen it in many places and never clued in. Thankfully nobody else did either.

I also managed to hit two birds with one stone, making this 40-someodd minutes a tiny bit more productive, and finally learned the real meaning of et al also. I’m taking a philosophy course and they seem to LOVE throwing in words from other languages. Just to throw bait to the wolves who are brave (or bored) enough to read down this far: what does “prima facie” mean? Context: “I have argued that four intrinsic properties of organisms…establish a prima facie scale of moral status.” My guess would be “temporary”, but that’s probably wrong. I was thinking of looking it up until I realized what looking up [sic] got me into.

Just to tie it all back: intrin[sic].

Suck my cunt

this is really very cool. i work in a high school, im reading some academic [shit] and i try to learn what [sic] means only to find that nobody actually knows, leading me to further my belief in the relativity of truth, and the beauty of the universe, and the sad state of our country, and the excitement of possibility, and the reality of change, and the humor of Dick Long’s previous comment, and the fact that someone will read this and hopefully take it somewhere completely different, like their relationship with their neighbor’s dog, or the possibility that everybody sees color differently, or the new fandangled hipness of track bikes and fixed gears all over our urban areas, or the intellectual debate around the correct usage of ironic…
what does ironic really mean anyway, man? it’s just like, totally, ironic that i can even think that way, right? god, postmodernity is the thick soup we all slurp in the waking hours of our collective apocolypse…
candy canes are totally sweet.

This thread is unbelievable. I am 21 years old and finally wanted to know the meaning of [sic]. I didn’t realize this was such a widespread problem……

(SIC)= Spelling In Correct(sic)

I think it

Dear Scrudmuffin……

you stink.

the end.

Merry Sicmas!!

[sic]’In Correct’ is one word dummass

You go Scrudmuffin!

Why am I even posting? [sic] has been defined and explained so many times that to do so again would be futile. So I’ll just say this, next time you want to know what something means, dictionary.com is great. Don’t get me wrong, this site is great too, but dictionary.com is quick and easy. (no affiliation)

Phil

P.S. If you are in love with someone, and you don’t know if he/she feels the same way, find out, NOW. Regret gets harder to live with every year. Well, it does for me anyway.

If I was to print all these pages out from start to finish, I would need 36 pages of valuable forrest consuming paper,and probably a new ink cartridge !! And as I’m a Yorkshireman, I will have to refrain from such a task. Anyway it’s just taken me nearly a couple of hours to get down to this spot, but I think it’s been worth it. I can now baffle my friends with knowledge that I am 100% certain they won’t have a clue about. Well I have had a good laugh, keep up the gud [sic] work !!??!! CU.

sic1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (sk)
adv.
Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally.

I feel like im signing the visitors log in the rangers station at a national park.

Can I draw graffiti in your bathroom as well ?

~R
UT-Knox

Well, I had nothing more to do, and I really wondered about what [sic] means, so I ended up here. As I see already a tradition in it, I ended up posting here too. Thanks a lot for explaining what [sic] means, and for amusing me for the last few minutes.

Believe it or not. I was just sitting around with my best friend drinking a few beers wondering what the meaning of [sic] was. Didn’t know if my attempt to use it for the first time in my life was appropriate. After reading all this shit and laughing my ass off, I don’t really care.

Believe it or not. I was just sitting around with my best friend drinking a few beers wondering what the meaning of [sic] was. Didn’t know if the way I intended to use it for the first time in my life was appropriate. After reading all this shit and laughing my ass off, I don’t really care.

I am a teacher. I sent an email with a joke spelling mistake in it and then put (sic) after the mistake. I panicked in case I had used it wrong. I checked the web. I found this site. I wasted bloody ages reading it. I found out that I was correct in my usage. I always remembered it as Spelling is Correct. 2 years of posts! We are a sad species.

Am I at the end of the internet? So this is where all queries about [sic] in the world end up. Imagine how many times a court dictator has to use sic to transcribe some dumbass on the stand, HA! Well, I’m 30 and living in Huntsville,AL USA. 30 seems to be roughly the age that people get sick of wondering abowt[sic]. Since I invested 40 minutes of my life reading what all you had to say, I felt like I was allowed to write a bit. May this thread make someone richer, someone older, and someone smarter. And remember, 5 year old threads ROCK!

(may you all burn in hell for reading every fucking word of this thread) ;)

I think this is how myspace started.

This site is an anomaly. Does anybody really know what [sic] means? Who’s the final authority on this?

The {sic} police are the final authority.

They know everthing, they are everywhere, they see all.

Never doubt them..

[sic]

You know… there’s also the slang word sic. It’s used like that’s a sic ride man! I means cool among other uses. See UrbanDictionary.com.

[Sic] could also mean Spelling Intentionally Corrupted. Does that work? I just used it in an e-mail when I reffered to an “Ossifer of the law [sic]” to my friend concerning his DUI arrest. HeHe, [Sick] [sic].

Spelling Is Crap

I fucking hate spelling. Probaly cuz I am crap at it !

I was thinking of killing myself untill i realised i couldnt die without knowing the meaning of [SIC]. So i typed it into google and this was the top result. I have now found new meaning in life and I will not jump out my 15th floor aprtment window. But my Spelling Is still Crap

I am in the middle of writing a paper and wanted to see if it was appopriate to use a sic quote. I googled “[sic] sic quite” and stumbled unto this website. In spite of the fact that mispelled a word, the internet gods read my mind and directed me here. After reading most of the thread, I can’t read all of it I have a paper to finish, I realized that I can’t use a sic quote in my paper…Thanks internet! Now I am going on my space to look for hot chicks.

this place is awesome
i felt like posting 1/3 of the way through, but i had to read them
all
i came here because of “We decided to make a picture as though there was a [sic] Hyborian world”.
i have hated [sic] every time i have seen it during my life, the anger
finally made me search for an answer.
p.s. regret what you have done, not what you haven’t
pspspsps i am 26 and a waster!

Hey all-
Thanks for adding some levity to my standardized test stupor. The only thing harder than taking the damn things is proctoring (sic) them!
A High School Teacher (pity me)

I only came here after listening to a friend’s advice (some friend!). All you people had to do was pick up a dictionary. In Australia, where we have good ole [sic] English dictionary’s, “sic” means “thus” in Latin. Ignore all comments from the U.S. posters — they’ve bastardized [sic] the English language :-)