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Re:World won't cool without geoengineering, warns report by idProQuo on Thursday September 26, 2013 @11:11AM (#6451290)
This is really off topic, sorry in advance.

Why did you use "(sic)"? I always thought it stood for "Spelling InCorrect", but lately I keep seeing people use it in other contexts.

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Re:World won't cool without geoengineering, warns report by jdminhbg on Thursday September 26, 2013 @11:21AM (#6451366)
'Sic' is Latin for 'thus,' the meaning in quotations is "no really, what I just wrote." So here it's "actually billions, that's not a mistake"; in a quote with incorrect spelling it's "this is the way it appears in what I'm quoting, it's not my mistake."
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Re:World won't cool without geoengineering, warns report by guard-of-terra on Thursday September 26, 2013 @11:25AM (#6451402)
I think it's Latin for "I'm not making this quote up!"
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