Re: [dev] Programming quotes.

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 05:54:54PM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote:
>either this is a really clever troll or else I'm going to need to know
>where you heard this
>
>the brackets don't affect the meaning of 'sic' in the least

Brackets in quoted material signify a change by the by the
person doing the quoting (e.g., "[The commission] was set..." as
opposed to "It was set..."). Parens generally signify
parenthetical material added by the original author. So, if I
want to write something silly like, I'm stuck using Lunix (sic),
the sic denotes that I didn't unintentionally misspell Linux.
If, on the other hand, I quote someone who either can't spell,
or doesn't care to clarify his clever misspellings, and I want
to indicate that the idiosyncrasy or mistake is from the
original, rather than a misquote or transcription error, I'd
write "What a rediculous [sic] set of presumptions!" If I'd used
(sic) instead, the likely presumption is that the original
author intended the misspelling and chose to acknowledge it.

-- 
Kris Maglione
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple,
and wrong.
	--H. L. Mencken