Re^4: The view from Barnes & Noble

And all the examples use quoted material.

Not quite.

It is also sometimes used for comic effect:

    The Daily Mail was the first newspaper [sic] …
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Re^5: The view from Barnes & Noble by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 10, 2008 at 13:01 UTC
That's a quote (of a line from the Wikipedia page about the publication), just like the other indented paragraphs. The example shows an editor adding the "[sic]" to a quote to denote his amusement as the publication being called a newspaper. (It's a tabloid.) Anyway, I wasn't picking on the OP, and I wasn't looking for a discussion about the meaning of the construct. I was asking what he meant since it was unclear while explaining why it was unclear. The fact that monks have posted three or four different assumption as to what the OP meant the question was warranted.	[reply]

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Re^5: The view from Barnes & Noble
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 10, 2008 at 13:01 UTC

That's a quote (of a line from the Wikipedia page about the publication), just like the other indented paragraphs. The example shows an editor adding the "[sic]" to a quote to denote his amusement as the publication being called a newspaper. (It's a tabloid.)

Anyway, I wasn't picking on the OP, and I wasn't looking for a discussion about the meaning of the construct. I was asking what he meant since it was unclear while explaining why it was unclear. The fact that monks have posted three or four different assumption as to what the OP meant the question was warranted.

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