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I wonder whether 'cq' is a mangling of 'sic': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic FWIW, I've never seen 'cq', but I've seen (a
by david-given 10y ago
I wonder whether 'cq' is a mangling of 'sic':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic
FWIW, I've never seen 'cq', but I've seen (and used myself) 'sic' lots of times; it might be a leftpondian/rightpondian thing.
- danso 10y agoMaybe it evolved from that, but `cq` is distinctly different than `sic`. cq is used as a meta-tag in story editing systems (I have no idea what news writers did before computers) to communicate between editors. `sic` is used to communicate to the reader that that weird quote is what was actually said. I guess you could put "sic" in as meta-text that wouldn't get printed, but it still might be ambiguous as to the writer's/editor's intent.