#sic

Enikő Zsuzsa Kocsis (née Szabó); an Ethnic Hungarian [Szék] Bride from Transylvania, Romania

The phrase “[sic]” in quotes and literature denotes when the original instance of a quote was in error. More interesting is the origin of the phrase:

Some will claim that it’s Latin but this is in error. According to Alvin Sech, quoted in the Sixth Edition of Cyclopedia Litterati as Alvin Sekh [sic], “Sich [sic] is Latin for “Thus” and thus it stands as a notice of an original eror [sic]” That second sic being a sic from the Cyclopedia, or a “Cyc Sic.”

The truth is far more bizarre. Sech, who had his own difficulties in spelling,  didn’t know in his time that Sic was actually a cyclical sequence of secondary suffixes, such as “Sik,” “Sak,” and “Sac,” which were added in Greek times to errors made by philosophers (Such as Socrates) in logical disagreements as a challenge to correct. Most peculiar of all is that these seem to have been added first by Hippocrates, who was according to Sech a “Healer of the Sik [sic].”

So if Sekh [sic] said Sich [sic, (sic)] were said by a healer of the sik [sic] then the sic, said Sech (Sekh in the sixth Cyc’s sic [sic]) was not sick [sic] but sik [sic] and not in fact sic (Sech). This caused a heated scholarly debate, likely due to Sech’s claim that “the pronunciation of all variants in the same maner [sic].” In semantic circles this was humorously called “The Sic-ness,” and referred to as the “C Sickness” due to the C in sic, which Seck naturally confused himself for Sea Sickness, or as he called it, “C Sicness [sic].” So, if one had C Sickness [sic] or Sea Sic-ness [sic] one had to see the sic to know they were sick, and were thus sacked by Sack [sic] who had no tolerance for such confusion.

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