et el, sic, pls sos

[kb]

Guys, Maybe I am doff (no comments pls John Young), but what the hell does et al, and sic mean. These wierd and wonderful abbreviations are used quite abit, and I have no clue.

Sorry for the strange request, but it's buggin me!!!

[RV4ker (RIP)]

ET AL:
Latin meaning "and others".

And I failed latin...

[RV4ker (RIP)]

Type define:sic in Google... (very useful if linguistically challenged like yours truly...)

SIC may mean one of the following: *[sic] or (sic) (from Latin sic for "thus"; see also list of Latin phrases) is a bracketed expression used to indicate that an unusual spelling, phrase, or any other preceding quoted material is intended to be read or printed exactly as shown (rather than being an error) and should not be corrected. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIC

[kb]

tks, (thant means thanks )

Actually quite a handuy little site, define :anywordyouwant.

thanks RV,

[RV4ker (RIP)]

If internet can't solve/answer it, usually I am stuffed

[DarkHelmet]

ROFLMAO!

[John Young]

but what the hell does et al, and sic mean.

Et Al = typical KZN phase "and all". Correct use meaning "and others".

(Sic) = as written - usually / mostly meaning as spelt.

Regards
John ZU-CIB

PS: "No comments"

[The Agent]

Whats the matter with the KZN people can you not type the word out in full ??????????????????

[slysi]

Having recently finished an academic dissertation I am so GAT VOL of abbreviations such as et al. Don't forget that et al. should be in italics otherwise you will have some dingbat professor threatening to fail you.

In research methodology the abbreviation et al. is used when quoting more than one author. So if there are more than two authors to a piece of literature you will quote as follows: Rv4ker et al. (2007) commented........bla, bla, bla

Sorry for boring you okes but I had to find some out let for this bloody academic lingo because no real person ever used it .

[Tumbleweed]

Sic = spelling in correct

[Arnulf]

O.k, great, fantastic. This has now exceeded my span of attention.
Can we please talk about aeries again?

[Morph]

WTF

Let's talk aeries IMHO

[GR8-DAD]

What's going on, have we run out of topics or is everyone out there busy flying...

[Dre'man]

What's going on, have we run out of topics or is everyone out there busy flying...

It seems they are all scanning old versions of Latin English Dictionaries

Don't know how many guys have picked up some softness by quoting Carpe Diem or similar words. The language probably died a couple of hundred years ago for a reason. (no-one can understand you speaking it)

[Oddball]

Just as a matter of interest, when you see ibid after a reference or somewhere in text this means, 'same as previous'. Often used when you are referring to various things that are all qouted from one source.

When an editor uses [sic] what they are saying is, "I am fully aware that this spelling or usage is incorrect but I am using the words verbatim and it's not my fault that the source is an ignoramus..."