Latin term used in today's English

cosmos_boy | 23:06 Wed 12th Sep 2007 | Arts & Literature

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I'm looking for a latin term we use today. It is used mainly by journalists when they quote someone to say something nonsensical. It means 'mistake intended'.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jonny

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shaneystar2

Could it be "Sic " or sicut ..which means thus ,It just means that the mistake was made by the person or text they are quoting .
In French it means Sans Intention Comique....without comic intervention .
or another Latin version is Sic transit Gloriam ..there but for the grace of God go I ..in other words they wrote it ...I didn't !!

cosmos_boy

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Yeah, that's exactly it - 'sic'!

Thank you very much for that :-)