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We do - if you're willing to pay for it. And their called physicists.
by confluence 14y ago
We do - if you're willing to pay for it.
And their called physicists.
- ColinWright 14y agoYes, and it's spelled "they're". See Muphry's (sic) law on wikipedia.
- dfc 14y agoDid you include the "sic" as a joke? If so well played my friend, if not the streak continues. Including "sic" is grammatically incorrect because you are not transcribing an error or misspelling something on purpose.
- ColinWright 14y agoI believe you to be mistaken. I did not include it as a joke, and using "sic" in this context is literally correct. The reference is to "Muphry's" law (carefully note the spelling), and almost everyone would assume that I had mis-spelled that, intending instead "Murphy's" law. Using "sic" indicates that it is written as I intended. Quoting Wikipedia: The Latin adverb sic ("thus"; in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it written") ... The usual purpose is to inform the reader that any errors or apparent errors in the transcribed material do not arise from transcription errors, ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic
- dfc 14y agoI did read closely, given the context it is readily apparent that you are not referring to Murphy's law.
- ColinWright 14y agoBut others, who do not read as closely as you apparently do, need the extra information provided by the "(sic)". More than once when quoting Muphry's Law I've been "corrected".