Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Lawson English
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 08:39

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gato (gato@freud.inst.com) wrote:
: Jim Wong (jd-wong@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: : jsart@ix.netcom.com (Joel Sartoris) writes:
: : >>ON a 9500/132, the speed of SoftWIndows 2.0 beta running Windows 95
: : >>Gold is said to rival that of an 80486DX2 33 [sic] system.
: 					  ^^^
: There's no such thing as an 80486dx2 33 MHz system.


I don't know which language is native for you, but in English, if we are 
quoting something that we realize doesn't make sense, and want to point 
out that it doesn't make sense, we put the word "sic" (Latin for "thus" 
-short for "thus it is written" (and I know it don't make no cents, 
OK?))  after it to point out the fact that the phrase/quotation is 
repeated exactly, without attempting to correct it.


I'm sorry if your ESL courses never covered this.


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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 6 Aug 1995 08:39:38 GMT
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