A full-page newspaper defends the punishment high school student Darryl George has faced over his hairstyle.

  • @kerrigan778
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    I don’t think sic applies here, you’re looking for “/s” to denote that the preceding is sarcastic. Sic generally denotes that the phrasing/spelling/words is not altered or is verbatim.

    • HubertManne
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      10 months ago

      oh crap. I thought sic meant sarcastic nad I have thought that for years. now im looking it up.

        • HubertManne
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          610 months ago

          no seriously I have been going around thinking it meant sarcasm intended something. The worst part is im used to academic papers from long ago and I think now I remember its usage but someone got it goofed up in the internet age.

        • HubertManne
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          110 months ago

          No I was thinking internet slang. honestly I remember sike as more an 80’s thing but the decades. they begin to blur. my brain does things like confusing sic and /s so its a pretty normal thing for me. hopefully i remember it right in future but one thing that is annoying for me is if I learn something, even on my own, badly. I tend to have a hard time not doing it wrong.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          Going back to the 1990s, I’m pretty sure we all spelled it “psych,” just the same as in the similar expression “psych out.” That said, I have no doubt there were different spellings in different places.

          • @[email protected]
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            110 months ago

            Unfortunately, we all did not spell it that way. It was misspelled so often that “sike” became the common spelling. I don’t think most people knew the origins of the term.

    • @uid0gid0
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      10 months ago

      The only sic this guy needs is sic semper tyrannis.