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I have been looking for this in the internet for a while now. I recently read another article about Nuking Hurricanes

Please see the [sic] in this quote below

Could Hurricane Carla have been broken up, or greatly modified, or its course turned back to sea, by nuclear bombs?,” asked an editorial in the Longview Daily News. “The suggestion that man-made explosions may effect [sic] hurricanes cannot be dismissed with the same degree of certainty on the basis of energy comparisons as was possible with earlier atomic weapons.

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  • See: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/28935/the-usage-of-sic-in-writing – TaliesinMerlin Aug 26 '19 at 14:37
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    In this case, the author is marking an error where the author used effect instead of affect. – TaliesinMerlin Aug 26 '19 at 14:37
  • In a quotation -- something the writer is not responsible for saying, only quoting correctly -- the writer may insert [sic] after an error made in the quotation, to indicate that the error was in the original, not the transcription. Sic is Latin for thus or so, and can be thought of as 'exactly so'. – John Lawler Aug 26 '19 at 14:41
  • @TaliesinMerlin and John, now I get it. Hence it mostly appears in somebody else writing mentioned in quotes. – Up-In-Air Aug 26 '19 at 14:50
  • In this particular example I'm not sure exactly why [sic] is included. Maybe the (citing) author is trying to call attention to the "error". Or maybe he's confirming the original (cited) author's intended meaning (that nuclear explosions might *effect = cause [to come into existence]* hurricanes, as opposed to *affect = modify [the behaviour of hurricanes]*. Not a very helpful bit of background info to the quote, I feel. – FumbleFingers Aug 26 '19 at 15:01
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    @FF I disagree; ' "Could Hurricane Carla have been broken up, or greatly modified, or its course turned back to sea, by nuclear bombs?,” asked an editorial in the Longview Daily News. ' strongly implies that 'affect' was intended in the next sentence. And 'cause' vastly outperforms 'effect'. – Edwin Ashworth Aug 26 '19 at 16:07

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