"niggly"?

As in: "playing basketball is a niggly thing to do"?

nobody frowns. no more white prides.

yeah, pretty much... 'gofer this... gofer that...' whatever niggly things need to be taken care of...

"gofer"?

As in: "Might as well gofer a soda, nobody hurts, nobody cries"?

nobody drowns. nobody dies.

Jess, how the hell did you throw your back out?

damn, I hope you get better soon. if you want any help just let me know, one of the benefits of me being unemployed (for you) is that I can become a helper or gofer if necessary. ... but only for you! Thrown out backs, depending on the health of the individual tend to improve within a couple days, i think...

Depends on what you exactly did to it.

I've written a shit-load of papers in these last 5 years, so let me explain:

[sic] is used when there is an error (whether it be spelling, grammatical or factual errors) in a quotation that you are using. So yes, AD is right about how [sic] is used, but it is not limited to just spelling.

The other way to use square brackets in a quotation is when you need to replace a word in the quotation you are using for the purpose of what MCs would call "flow". For example, if you're incorporating a quotation in a paper that is in the wrong tense from the rest of your paper, you could change the tense of the word in question, but you would have to put the entire word in square brackets to show that you modified it.

Too bad we don't know any English majors....

Anyways, Eric - thanks for the invite, but I'm usually not home 'til 10 or so on Tuesdays. Except tonight. Who knew that throwing your back out hurt THIS much? Honestly, I can't even take my own socks off. Does anyone know how long I can expect this to hurt?

my understanding of the [sic] is that it's used in a quotation to acknowledge that the spelling error you made in it was in the origional text. But then I may be on smack, ask an english major.

Actually, AD, I'm not an expert, but I believe the correct way to use a misspelling while acknowledging that you know of the error would be to write "lazer [sic]". I'm not sure, however, if that's only used while quoting text or whether it can be used at any time.

Damn, I want those prizes tonight. And I would have reigned suppremely, with my magnificent twistability, and my obvious talent of basic spelling and grammer. Instead tonight I will be rocken the soccerball. Ciaobella