--- Doug Meerschaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, wait, isn't basic spelled B-A-S-I-C? Why use the > "spelled-in-correctly" abbreviation? (If you meant "called basic but > not basic", then wouldn't quotation marks be better?)
just to clear up a point, 'sic' does not mean 'spelled-in-correctly'. It's actually a Latin word not an acronym for anything (altho I've also seen 'spelling in context'). It's used to indicate that a passage is intentionally written as it appears, despite what may seem to be blatant errors. Most often it is used when quoting material and something in the quote is either mispelled or grammatically incorrect to make it clear that the mistake was by the original author and not the person doing the quoting. alec __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
