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I feel like there should be a [sic] after 'whegged', because I assumed it was a careless typo.
by EdwardCoffin 8y ago
I feel like there should be a [sic] after 'whegged', because I assumed it was a careless typo.
- ape4 8y agoGoogling for that word gives quite a few hits. whegged = wheeled leg.
- robotresearcher 8y agowheg = wheeled leg whegged = wheeled legged
- gweinberg 8y agoI think that would anti-help. Usually sic means something is a typo, just not yours.
- EdwardCoffin 8y agoIt is also used for things that actually are spelled correctly, as here, but might be otherwise confused for a typo.
- mentat 8y agoDo you have a reference for this use? I have never heard of it.
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoThe Wiki article is helpful[1], I think of it as a shorthand for "that's what they said, whether or not it's correct/comprehensible". 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic
- EdwardCoffin 8y agoThis is from my Oxford concise English dictionary, 9ed (1995): > sic usage: the word sic is placed in brackets after a word that appears odd or erroneous to show that the word is quoted exactly as it stands in the original There's also this part of the entry in Wikipedia [1] > A sic may show that an uncommon or archaic expression is reported faithfully [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic#To_denote_archaisms_and_dialect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic#To_denote_archaisms_and_di...
- setr 8y agoI still feel like it comes with the implication that you're not expected to see this as a normal term; but in this case, its apparently perfectly well-known, just in a particular field that HN doesn't perhaps specialize in. It would be like adding [sic] to articles about quantum mechanics, using terms that a physicist naturally know, but a programmer wouldn't. And that'd just be weird (or rather, a lot of [sic]'s going around)
- karmakaze 8y agoNaming the bot Whex might help in understanding. As in "Whex the 6-whegged rhowbot."