Sunday, May 30, 2010

Sic, I Tell ya

This one's for Laura over at Terribly Write.

The author of this Yahoo! News article is either complicit in the perpetual dumbing-down of the U.S., or he's just dumb himself, and doesn't know the word sic would've been appropriate here:

3 comments:

Rimpy Rimpington said...

Nice!

Laura said...

I don't think the writer or Yahoo's readers would understand "sic." Makes me sic just to think about it.

Laura said...

I think you've had an influece on the writers at Yahoo's Shine. Someone discovered [sic] and has used it with hilarious results. You can see it here:
http://terriblywrite.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/your-sense-of-humor-is-sic/