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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) th
by odiroot 6y ago
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.
- travmatt 6y agoThere are costs to being exposed to high levels of ambient noise though: https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/136466/e94888.pdf https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/136466/...
- lgas 6y agoOut of curiosity, what's the idea behind including a "sic" parenthetical in an original unquoted piece of writing?
- wizzwizz4 6y ago"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 6y agoOk, 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 6y agoIt literally means "thus" which is just another way of saying "Yes, really!"