NightOwl@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTesla swapped a solar owner's lease contract for the Book of Enochelectrek.coexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1175arrow-down11
arrow-up1174arrow-down1external-linkTesla swapped a solar owner's lease contract for the Book of Enochelectrek.coNightOwl@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down5·3 days agoI mean, it’s chunks of real latin.
minus-squarenautevenkidding@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-23 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-up16arrow-down1·3 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-up13·3 days ago Huh, I guess you’re right. At least regarding the first paragraph(s), which I would argue is the relevant part.
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.