[odiroot]

This is actually very very important in Singapore. There's multiple highways (sic!) going through the middle of the city. Even on higher floors (say 15 - 20) the constant noise is unbearable if you live on top of one.

I didn't notice many sound isolating walls there either. Guess people who were born there get used to it.

[lgas]

Out of curiosity, what's the idea behind including a "sic" parenthetical in an original unquoted piece of writing?

[wizzwizz4]

"Sic" means "that's not a mistake". When quoting, it often means "I didn't make the mistake, I faithfully copied somebody else's" but when writing your own stuff, it means "I didn't make a mistake; I meant to write that".

[lgas]

Ok, gotcha. I'm familiar with it (in the "sic erat scriptum" sense) for other people's writing but I've never seen it used in an original writing like that.

Not sure I get it here either, since most cities I can think of have multiple highways going through them, but thanks for the clarification. Always glad to expand my understanding of language.

[TheOtherHobbes]

It literally means "thus" which is just another way of saying "Yes, really!"

[travmatt]

There are costs to being exposed to high levels of ambient noise though: https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/136466/...