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by prdonahue
3122 days ago
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Interesting. I've always known "sic" by it's canonical usage: to point out an error in someone else's quotation (perhaps with some sneer). Wikipedia actually shows this newer usage of it. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic#.22Ironic_use.22_of_sic: "Ironic use" of sic[edit]
Occasionally a writer places [sic] after his or her own words, to indicate that
the language has been chosen deliberately for special effect, especially where
the writer's ironic meaning may otherwise be unclear.[18] Bryan A. Garner dubbed
this use of sic "ironic", providing the following example from Fred Rodell's 1955
book Nine Men:[2]
[I]n 1951, it was the blessing bestowed on Judge Harold Medina's prosecution
[sic] of the eleven so-called 'top native Communists,' which blessing meant
giving the Smith Act the judicial nod of constitutionality.
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