Tag: (sic)
Wherefore art thou, Captain Grammatical?
by schwim on Aug.03, 2009, under Software
I found this article in my feed reader this morning, which piqued my interest because, as you all know, I think the mind numbing number of forks is one of the most asinine aspects of linux.
Sadly, it was hard to follow the article long enough find any merit in his opinions. I couldn’t get past the written lashing he assigned to the poor bastard he quoted at the start of his post. Since quotation marks were used in his article, I was made aware that he was quoting someone. If there was any doubt however, he did name the author of the missive prior to the actual quote. In spite of this, he used my favorite quoting tool, (sic). Meaning thus or so, this allows the reader to understand that the written error belongs to the person quoted and not the person quoting. Additionally, it lets the reader know that the author feels that the quotes alone weren’t enough to ensure that the reader blame someone other than the author.
But wait, there’s more.
