Donald Trump does not like to lose, as his announcement that he is seeing(sic) new attorneys to appeal the $83 million defamation judgment proves.

  • @[email protected]
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    1610 months ago

    IDK what it stands for, but it’s used where theres a mistake in a quote. It’s the journalist saying “yes I know that’s wrong but that’s what the person reallg wrote”.

    I’ve heard that if you’re nice to a journalist they’ll tidy up minor issues like that, but if they don’t like you they’ll leave it incorrect and give you a [sic]

    • @tipicaldik
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      3010 months ago

      yes I know that’s wrong but that’s what the person reallg (sic) wrote

      like that? ;)

    • SuperDuper
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      1410 months ago

      It’s short for “sic erat scriptum” which is Latin for “thus it was written”