: Re: Many quotations of a black British novel which used creolized English language. When to use sic? I finished writing my essay about Sam Selvons "The Lonely Londoners" which is written in creolized

Definitely - not just a phrase but at least a paragraph discussing the language, possibly detailing some characteristic points of it, early on.

Also note - they aren't necessarily errors. That's a dialect, and as long as the spelling and grammar is true to that dialect, it's not erroneous; it just isn't Standard English. Think of it as quotations in a foreign language. If you write a sentence in Latin you don't put [sic] after every single word simply because it's not correct English (but correct Latin). It's the same here, the partial overlap with Standard English notwithstanding.

Of course keep your own essay in proper Standard English (AmE, BrE or whatever is your proper variant). If you use expressions from the original outside quotes, but in their original spelling, make them stand out as such, e.g. by writing them in italics.

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