Sun gear for auction
Want to be as cool as me? Ross’s Auctions (sic) are selling some Sun Microsystems gear this Saturday at their Maylands auction house. I might check it out. Let me know if you’re intersted in coming along (Tanman?) and we can make a crew.
It’s mostly older gear, but there’s an Enterprise 2 in amongst it. If that’s what I think it is, I might need some help lifting it.
I’ve been out there before, and noticed lots of rich foreign students prepared to outbid you for the good stuff. Hope you get what you are looking for :)
what does (sic) mean? I’ve tried finding out before, and all the definitions didn’t really seem to hold true. All I can think of in this case is it’s something to do with apostrophes, but I’m sure seeing as you typed it you can explain :)
I’m not sure what is stands for, but it means “they made the mistake and I’m copying it.” In this case, you’re right, it’s the the three esses with the apostrophe.
Matt, you should join the Apostrophe Protection Society:
http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/
It has the specific aim of preserving the correct use of this currently much abused punctuation mark in all forms of text written in the English language.
My Dad and Trev are also big on apostrophe usage.
Adam: You did finish high school… right?
Sure did, and not in 12 years of schooling, and 5 years of university did we ever learn what (sic) meant.
I’m backing Adam here Hale, I don’t think that knowing what (sic) means has any bearing on a level of education.
I find it amazing that we go through our lives and stumble upon things like this. It’s only the other day that I noticed the first D in Guildford, causing me to question it’s pronunciation. Is it guild-ford, or guil-ford? I’ve always done the second, but am I right?
Maggie always asks me what words mean, and she’s an English student. Fitzy, for the record, is one of the best spellers I know, and has a god hold of the English language (I believe).
My brother used to think our national anthem opened with “Australians all are ostriches” and an ex-girlfriend of mine was notorious for having ditzy moments; she thought The Police were singing “diet pills are what you take, walking on the moon.”
I remember the penny dropping when I realized (or maybe it was Withered that showed me) that C++ was the logical next increment to C.
I did not know what (sic) meant until Matt wrote about it (and then I went to google to check). Maybe I was sic(k) that day at school, bad pun.
I’m just giving Adam shit, not insulting his education :)
I went to high school in one of the worst schools in the state (by performance), and we covered (sic) in Year 9 or 10 English, when we were being taught how to quote sources properly. I figured it was part of the standard curriculum that we were all forced to endure. Maybe it wasn’t.
And yes Lambie, you are correct in your pronunciation of Guildford. If Guildford interests you, what about Warwick or Chiswick? Silent w’s in both of those.
I’m backing Lambie and Fitzy here!
I came across (sic) on my own accord and had to work its meaning out myself.
Goes to show how beneficial ETC100 (University level English) is if it doesn’t cover common punctuation as (sic).