Reading a news article about an interview with Dick Cheney brought me here. I, too, see that used in articles but have no idea what it means. To CC, ad hoc is a networking term where you share a network connection from one network adapter to another network adapter on the same computer. Common applications of this are to have a desktop that is near a modem that is receiving a wired internet signal that it can then share through a wireless adapter to other computers around a household..
But if you read it in an article, I guess it might have another meaning.. It generally signifies a solution designed for a specific problem or task, non-generalizable, and which cannot be adapted to other purposes. Thanks, I had to look up what [sic] meant after reading an article.. I knew what it meant but I thought that putting [sic] after something meant that the original persons mistake made them literally sick.
That made sense usually because if you looked carefully you could find something wrong with the spelling or grammar somewhere. Ad hoc does not come from computing, and is more usually used elsewhere. Therefore, it is used in computing to mean that something is created for each scenario as you go along , just like in many other contexts long before computing to indicate that something is being created for purpose, for example someone speaking without a script in a given situation creates their speech ad hoc; for the purpose of the situation.
I always thought the same. However when reading articles, it just does not make sense in that context. Thankfully I now know what it means thanks to you Maeve.
The responding emails have also helped me understand. What is the difference in using brackets as opposed to parenthesis? I also agree that it is used the way described above — to indicate that the writer knows the preceding is incorrect, but replicated the error when quoting the original source. What I have trouble with is reconciling the two. The reason sic is seen a lot today is due to the amount of quotes in newspaper articles taken from the internet — and of course articles shown on the internet, which were taken from the internet!
Just shows how one advance in communication has been to the detriment of another. What it also shows us is the literacy levels of the Worlds 16 yr olds.
I was taught that [sic] is an acronym, much like the sp your English teacher used to put on your papers. I could be wrong. The acronym [sic] is only properly used when quoting TEXT in written form, when the originator of the quoted text made an error. Brackets are used when inserting words into quoted text that are not part of the original quote. Parenthesis are used to make parenthetical comments in a sentence, which may be explanatory, but not contextually appropriate to include in the sentence.
They are not interchangeable, as is commonly supposed. That could work also. This is a much clear explanation, and much simplier. It is used when writing quoted material to indicate that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, punctuation or meaning in the quote has been reproduced verbatim from the original and is not a transcription error.
The quoting party is pointing out that they are not making an error or changing the format of the quote but are indicating that the original contianed the error or formating. Phil Esslinger, Calgary Canada The author has just vomited? Wilf, Puebla Mexico It comes from the latin 'sic' meaning 'like' or 'as'.
Usually it is written in quotations to indicate that a mistake is like that in the original. Adam Taussik, London Sic is short for Sicut, a Latin word which, for those familiar with Latin choral works, crops up in Sicut erat in principio So it basically means Like that.
It's used when quoting something with a spelling mistake or other glaring error, to mean Don't blame me, I'm only quoting. David Kimmins, London To add to further answers it is used as the shortening of "Sic Transit Gloriam" meaning roughly there but for the grace of God go I, therefore distancing oneself from the mistake and often passing silent comment on the writer of the original quote.
Fine examples of such usage can often be found in Private Eye Wilf, Puebla Mexico sic is an abbreviation for 'standard idiom communique' which, to the illiterate proletariat, meant that the words preceding sic were in fact spelled correctly, and that they should refrain from posting idiotic complaints about the subject. Sic - Something Is Changed. Tippo, Liverpool Merseyside The origin may be a shortcut for the latin "sicut", meaning "just as". The use of 'sic' in literary works is intended "thus" to impute the quoted element to its original source "just as" it exists.
Patrick Dua Dr , Heidelberg, Germany I don't know where the idea came from that 'sic' is short for 'sic transit gloriam', which supposedly means 'there but for the grace of God go I'. As many respondents say, 'sic' simply means 'so' or 'thus' denoting 'thus in the original'.
I guess that it is a bastard version of the phrase 'sic transit gloria mundi', meaning 'thus the glory of the world passes away'. Which has nothing whatever to do with the present question. Tim, Buckfastleigh, Devon The idea of using Latin 'sic' to replace 'thus' is quite funny, considering that 'thus' is also a Latin word I know the spelling is incorrect, but this is excatly how the guy I interviewed said it"!!!
Mwachala, Nairobi Kenya King James' court recorder wanted to send a coded message to his lover also one of the King's mistresses. He coded court documents to remind the girl about their first kiss, which happened to be in the King's bedroom. They shared many months of romance, but soon the court recorder's body was found with the words "SerIatim Caveat" engraved on his body One after another.
The girl was never heard from again. Shakespeare heard of this urban legend and adopted the word "sic" in his literature, probably to remind himself of love's transgressions and tragedies. And a master at having his verbage cleaned up by his staff Another word in this case for "DUH. Also as n. Etymology: L. Now I've read it all! Jamie The Saxt sic , apart from being a dribbling hunchback, and known as "The Wisest Fool in Christendom", was a notorious homosexual Americans cannot help themselves and insist on altering history and the King's or Queen's English to suit their views.
Americans should be perfectly at home with its usage as it should be employed every time they murther sic the English Language. Color sic , being just one instance.
Gotten sic being another. As a Scot living in England I am horrified by the mangling to which the English subject their language.
Shakespeare shouldn't be quoted as the definitive font of knowledge. He called MacBeth Thane of Cawdor as though Thane was an enobled sic title, whereas a thane in medieval Scotland and England was a servant or attendant. As the Americans delight in saying, snafu sic - more correctly S. Sic comes into English from the Latin word for so or thus. One common use of sic is in quoting historical documents that feature old-fashioned spellings that are no longer in use as in the first example above.
Sic is also used when quoting a speaker who has accidentally misspoken. For instance, court reporters may insert sic in square brackets if a witness or attorney clearly uses the wrong word in court, for example saying perpetrator by mistake when the rest of the sentence shows that he clearly meant to say victim or defendant. The use of sic has grown since the mids, and it can be used today as a comment about the person being quoted. Quoted material is, unsurprisingly, demarcated by the presence of quotation marks, so a reader could be expected to assume that any significant errors come from the source being quoted.
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