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minus-squarebridgeburner@lemmy.worldBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·3 months agoFun fact: The Lorem Ipsum text ain’t real Latin
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down5·3 months agoI mean, it’s chunks of real latin.
minus-squarenautevenkidding@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-23 months 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-up16arrow-down1·3 months 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-up13·3 months ago Huh, I guess you’re right. At least regarding the first paragraph(s), which I would argue is the relevant part.
minus-squareranzispa@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months 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
Fun fact: The Lorem Ipsum text ain’t real Latin
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.
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