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D'oh!
The intent is that the poster had strarted to type in 'sucks' and, after getting to the 'c' decided to delete. taking three strokes to do so. It's a geeky version of saying, "The movie I saw last night suc …uh, I mean, stinks"
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I guess the older, preferred trick is the use of sic (Latin 'thus') to indicate the a word was misspelled or is being used improperly.
As for the pronunciation of '^H', I just hear the sound of the backspace key being hit.
For the record, I first heard the term used back in my college days in a philosophy class. BTW, Derrida has a great little monograph on using quotation marks, quoting, citing, etc. I think it's in ABC, Limited, Inc., his hilarious sendup of Searle on Austin.
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As for the pronunciation of '^H', I just hear the sound of the backspace key being hit.
Yah. On a badly-mapped keyboard. Usually a PC connected to a Unix box or mainframe, but with a crap terminal emulator!
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the older, preferred trick is the use of sic (Latin 'thus') "to indicate the a word was misspelled or is being used improperly"
Or the very nobby version of soi disent from French and loosely translated as so-called.
His soi disent friend interupted us.
I have usually seen sic to mean "I recognize that this word is not correct but I can't change it because I am quoting someone and I just wanted to point out that it is their mistake and not mine."
Used in moderation I don't have a problem with scare-quotes. They merely indicate visually what in conversation the tone of voice would do audibly.
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Used in moderation I don't have a problem with scare-quotes. They merely indicate visually what in conversation the tone of voice would do audibly. [heartfelt thanks e]
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take a page from the humantitarian grammarians' theory de siècle and simply dismiss them as being wrongClassic faldage. 
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Thank you so much for posting the links, they were supposed to have shown up at the bottom of my reply, I think I did something wrong for looking at it they are not there. Oh-well I am still learning the ins and outs of this system.
Don't worry AlimaeHP, even those of us who have been here for years get tripped up by the system. For example, I know I responded to your explanation of the term non-linguistic words yesterday afternoon. I distinctly remember typing out the reply. And it's gone. Completely disappeared into the void. Oh well.
What I thought I'd said was that the use of these interjections varies from language to language and so must be linguistic. For example, Indonesian speakers don't say 'ouch' they say 'aduh' or 'ayiii'.
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theory de siècle
Also known as "pop siecle".
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As for the pronunciation of '^H', I just hear the sound of the backspace key being hit.
I use "^H" sometimes, and the related "^W", but I admit that for me it's doubly geeky, as I myself never actually had to hit "control-H" to backspace, but learned the usage from other posters on Usenet. But it can be handy, I think.
ABC, Limited, Inc., his hilarious sendup of Searle on Austin.
I've had the privilege of attending a lecture by Searle, and have also endured a lecture by Derrida. My memory of the monograph you refer to, is of thinking that a supposedly great thinker like JD should do better than cheap shots like making puns on someone's name.
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