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To be fair, you did write your post in Latin: > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. > Duis id maximus tortor. Sed nisi ante, fermentum ve
by Natfan 6y ago
To be fair, you did write your post in Latin:
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
> Duis id maximus tortor. Sed nisi ante, fermentum vel nunc
> et, tincidunt sagittis magna. In ultrices commodo lacus, id
> tristique ipsum euismod laoreet.
- teekert 6y agoHmm I always thought lorem ipsum was a text with letter usage histograms similar to English, without distracting the reader with meaning. I could have sworn I read that somewhere...
- spijdar 6y agoLorem ipsum is words/phrases copied from one of Cicero's writings, "De finibus bonorum et malorum". It's not a straight copy, kind of like if you copied every other word in places, but it's definitely Latin. It does likely have relatively similar usage patterns to English in terms of letter distribution, if only because they're both indo-european languages and English has deep vocabulary ties to Latin through Norman influences.
- zwog 6y agoYou are almost right: The distribution of letters and length of words is similar to that of the Latin language. But it is not Latin and the text does not make sense. It's gibberish.
- datapolitical 6y agoThose are Latin words, drawn from a Latin source. “Pencil what comma building twenty section human fedora” is English, even if it makes no sense.
- thotsBgone 6y agoThe words are English words, but many would argue it's not an English sentence.
- cxr 6y ago> Those are Latin words, drawn from a Latin source No, "Lorem" is "dolorem" with the first part chopped off, "adipiscing" and "elit" are mangled non-words, too, and so on. "Pencil what correct horse battery staple" can be called a sequence of English words. If someone who doesn't know what they're doing writes "ncil what correctando taple", though, then you're no longer in a position to say, "Those are English words".
- pvorb 6y agoThis is true. And still it is (nonsensical) Latin. It's chosen because Latin looks quite similar to English text. They use the same alphabet and word length tends to be similar.