[P1] sic!?! - off topic

[Mike Wallinga]

It's a notation used in writing when you are quoting someone else and 
the direct quote has errors or oddities.  One web page explains it this 
way:

----- Begin Quoted Text
Sometimes, though, you may have to quote something that looks downright 
wrong. In these cases, it's traditional to signal to your readers that 
the oddities are really in the original, and not your mistake. The 
signal is "[sic]": square brackets for an interpolation, and the Latin 
word sic, "thus, this way." (Since it's a foreign word, it's always in 
italics; since it's a whole word and not an abbreviation, it gets no 
period.) It amounts to saying, "It really is this way, so don't blame 
me."
----- End Quoted Text

 From http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/s.html

So on the web page you were viewing, the [sic] notation may have been 
used because the test computer had an unreasonable amount of RAM 
listed, but the author of the page was obligated to use the data he had 
been given about the test computer.  Without seeing the page and the 
context, I can't be sure, but that would be my best guess.

Hope this helps, off-topic as it may be.  :-)

- Mike W.

On Dec 31, 2003, at 2:21 PM, Chris Weinkauf wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I was browsing some web pages about the OS X Public Beta this morning 
> and noticed a little [sic] next to the RAM amount used in a test 
> computer. Does anyone know what this means?
>
> Cheers ^_^
> -Chris
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