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A comment on 1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers (2017).

Re:1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern... by johnr2 on Sunday January 27, 2019 @05:56AM (#19011254)
Interesting article, but I'm slightly puzzled by the [sic] comments following many of the quotes. The use of English looks correct for the time.
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Re:1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern... by 00ajcr on Sunday January 27, 2019 @08:58AM (#19011689)
Surely the [sic] annotations are to indicate that the quotations are unchanged from the original source text, which contains somewhat archaic language and misspellings of words when compared to modern English.
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Re:1600s England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern... by johnr2 on Sunday January 27, 2019 @10:26AM (#19012004)
You're right. I'm so used to seeing it used in a snarky way that I was overlooking the original meaning of "sic erat scriptum" (thus was it written).
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