As Prompted by my Previous Post

[aesmael]

I find myself wondering whether the sic is dying out. These days quoting is normally a matter of copy and paste, perhaps with the addition of some indentation or other marker to show it as the writings of another. We don't get transcription errors this way, so possibly the main effect of applying a few sics to the quoted text is to show up the quoter as a snotty 'look how smart I am' type, or as an attempt to discredit the quoted person by highlighting their ignorance.

The question 'Thoughts?' is always, always to be implied here, but this time I make it explicit - an excuse to explicate its previously implicit implicitness.

Thoughts?