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Date:
Mon, 17 Jan 1994
From:
"Daniel P. Tompkins"
Subject:
Latin???
We're
installing Aldus Pagemaker in our office, and just came up with the
following text offered Pagemaker's tutorial: Lorem ipsum dolor sit
amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonnummy nibh eiusmod
tincidunt uit laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. . . .
Someone--I.A. Richards?--said that it's impossible to compose a poem
of pure nonsense. This comes pretty close. I stared at it and
wondered not only what it could have meant but what prompted the
folks at Aldus (nomen omen) to use it; is this what the famous
printer put together after one too many? Folks might have comments
Date:
Mon, 17 Jan 1994
From:
"David J. White"
Subject: Re: Latin???
Hmm. I can't quite figure this one out, either. My instinct was to
try reading it as English--you know, the faux Latin of the sort "ab
lubi nervi felo, Gaius Iulius, iubet", i.e. "a bloody
nervy fellow, Gaius Iulius, you bet", the last line of a long
passage of faux Latin that I once picked up and probably have tucked
away in my files somewhere. However, this passage doesn't seem to
yield to this sort of "solution", unless I am missing
something.
Date:
Mon, 17 Jan 1994
From:
Elli Mylonas
Subject:
Greeked Latin
When page layout people want to show what a page looks like, and not
actually type stuff,they "greek" it. It then has shapes
that could be letters, but aren't really. I seem to remember seeing
this Aldus sample, and also some Greek sample, and they are
nonsense. Keeps you from reading, just makes you look at what the
chunks of text look like.
Date:
Mon, 17 Jan 1994
From:
Carl Conrad
Subject:
Re: Latin???
I
remember seeing this in PageMaker back in version 2.0. My comment:
dic mihi, o Meliboee: istud 'lorem,' anne latinum?
Date:
Mon, 17 Jan 1994
From:
Virginia Knight
Subject: Re: Latin???
A
friend of mine has writting a 'spelling checker' which corrects
words to what it thinks they should be, and it generated the
following from your text: Lore issue donor sit amen, confectionery
addressing elite, see dial consumed nigh custody incidents quit
laureate donors manna cliques brat voluntary. . . . I hope this
helps. It makes at least as much sense as the original.
Date:
Wed, 19 Jan 1994
From: Patrick Rourke
Subject:
Re: Latin???
Printer's
Latin has always seemed a sort of post-modern prose-poem to me, too.
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