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what does that mean?
ie..
"[al-Qaeda has] an interest in manipulating it to look like current tapes," he says. "You can digitally manipulate voice to say anything. You can change months, years, you can tape vowels and syllables and put it into a recording and change it."
(should be square brackets around al-Qaeda has no doubt it'll be removed)
ie..
"[al-Qaeda has] an interest in manipulating it to look like current tapes," he says. "You can digitally manipulate voice to say anything. You can change months, years, you can tape vowels and syllables and put it into a recording and change it."
(should be square brackets around al-Qaeda has no doubt it'll be removed)
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someone quoted something, they didn't say [whatever is in here] , but the paper has filled it in just so you know what they're on about
it means it wasn't in the original quote and has been added andy. 'i don't thnk andy murray will one one [a grand slam] this year' for example.
The speech being quoted did not include the specific words bracketed but that is what was being referred to. Usually the ommitted words were referred to earlier in the source quote/interview but not in that section directly quoted.
ok thanks
so i guess in my example, it's an extract of a longer sentence
so i guess in my example, it's an extract of a longer sentence
It means the words weren't actually spoken they might have been spoken by the interviewer and the person was just respondong.
eg:
intervewer: What do you think of Man United's chances in the premiership?
interviewee: They have a very good chance of winning it.
might appear in a paper as:
Interiviewe said "They [Man United] have a very good chance of winning it [the premiership]."
eg:
intervewer: What do you think of Man United's chances in the premiership?
interviewee: They have a very good chance of winning it.
might appear in a paper as:
Interiviewe said "They [Man United] have a very good chance of winning it [the premiership]."
What does it mean when it says 'sic' in a statement? Hope im not being totally thick.....
Sic is a Latin word meaning "thus", "so", "as such", or "in such a manner". In writing, it is placed within the quoted material, in square brackets or outside it, in regular parentheses and usually italicized [sic] to indicate that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, punctuation, and/or other preceding quoted material has been reproduced verbatim from the quoted original and is not a transcription error
gotta be a bit of an ar.sehole to use "sic" in a sentence imo
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