NightOwl@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoTesla swapped a solar owner's lease contract for the Book of Enochelectrek.coexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up1175
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minus-squareJasonDJ@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59·16 days agoMfw my mortgage had an entire section titled “Lorem ipsum”.
minus-squarebridgeburner@lemmy.worldBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·16 days agoFun fact: The Lorem Ipsum text ain’t real Latin
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·16 days agoI mean, it’s chunks of real latin.
minus-squarenautevenkidding@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-216 days 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-up16·16 days 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-up13·16 days 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”.
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.