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minus-squareJasonDJ@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57arrow-down1·1 month agoMfw my mortgage had an entire section titled “Lorem ipsum”, written completely in Latin.
minus-squarebridgeburner@lemmy.worldBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 month agoFun fact: The Lorem Ipsum text ain’t real Latin
minus-squareranzispa@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoIt is Latin, it comes from a text by Cicero. However the text is not entirely correct, I guess it accumulated errors along the way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down5·1 month agoI mean, it’s chunks of real latin.
minus-squarenautevenkidding@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-21 month agoEdit: This seems to be wrong, see the thread for context. If by chunks you mean individual letters of the latin alphabet. Otherwise no, lorem ipsum is pseudo-latin, meant to emulate letter frequency and word length of latin, but not actual latin words.
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·1 month agoWhat? Yes it does. “Ipsum” is a latin word, it means “itself”. It’s a fragment of “[Do]lorem ipsum, dolor sit amet”, “pain itself, for being pain”. It’s from, IIRC, Cicero.
minus-squarenautevenkidding@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 month ago Huh, I guess you’re right. At least regarding the first paragraph(s), which I would argue is the relevant part.
Mfw my mortgage had an entire section titled “Lorem ipsum”, written completely in Latin.
Fun fact: The Lorem Ipsum text ain’t real Latin
It is Latin, it comes from a text by Cicero. However the text is not entirely correct, I guess it accumulated errors along the way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
I mean, it’s chunks of real latin.
Edit: This seems to be wrong, see the thread for context.
If by chunks you mean individual letters of the latin alphabet.
Otherwise no, lorem ipsum is pseudo-latin, meant to emulate letter frequency and word length of latin, but not actual latin words.
What? Yes it does. “Ipsum” is a latin word, it means “itself”. It’s a fragment of “[Do]lorem ipsum, dolor sit amet”, “pain itself, for being pain”. It’s from, IIRC, Cicero.
Huh, I guess you’re right. At least regarding the first paragraph(s), which I would argue is the relevant part.