Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: OT "sic"? (was Re: Binary Search) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:54:23 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <90gfdtFmkU2@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net 6GNCfPS9CGShtpZGbfbxp/xR2Ejb6smY9b440k6/By8TtgSs+ORQ0FKVN14+HLTwI1Hy4Y5dMkvsk2ZuY3Wr9gw0QUC42ErZdzf+7IkdbXiqOE3skJqaCq9wr8RwGlCM NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:53:41 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="XSTYo3Q9vkFoxHMB/GFvnQ8YX7xWr2ny4MUcpZf+Go+7C2U1wenfliU+xvuYpBfO8A+M2qWHmIuslEM4uvumu9TiMC4ETQOsEGE/hT190SNVZb/mHz+Su83td7yulhpv"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:c3XOJr6KhNWJk+2INA60XajqyYM= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3039 Tom Anderson wrote: > Lew wrote: > >> Leif Roar Moldskred wrote: >>> Lew wrote: >>>> But not "K" or "T". >>> >>> That's a matter of style: some style guides recommend the use of an >>> apostrophe to mark plurals of individual letters, some do not. See "Eat, >>> Shoots & Leaves -- The zero tolerance approach to punctuation" by Lynne >>> Truss for a funny but in-depth discussion of the uses of apostrophes. >> >> Yes, it is a matter of style. Duh. That's why I cited a *style* >> guide. There's a direct correlation there. >> >> Yes, styles vary. > In which case the use of 'sic' is dubious. You are not marking something that > is wrong, you are marking something that you wouldn't write that way yourself. > If you start doing that consistently, i think you will soon find that your > square bracket keys have worn out. > > To be honest, the use of sic in quoted text in a mail or news post at all is > dubious. sic is used to indicate that there has been no error in > transcription; when it is a machine doing the transcription, it is redundant. > Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah ... -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg