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From the wikipedia entry[1]: Lorem ipsum is typically a corrupted version of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC text by the Roman statesman and ph
by smcameron 4y ago
From the wikipedia entry[1]:
Lorem ipsum is typically a corrupted version of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC text by the Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical and improper Latin.
I don't think that really counts as "latin", any more than hackertyper[2] counts as C code.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
[2] https://hackertyper.net/ https://hackertyper.net/
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y agoYeesh, is nothing sacred? Chick-pea must be rolling in his grave.
- nl 4y agoOn behalf of the poster I'd like to say mea culpa. It was kind of an ad hoc example though, and perhaps they didn't mean that specific example per se but more the large number of Latin phrases one comes across daily without really thinking about it. I guess we could continue this thread ad infinitum because there are plenty more examples but I'll leave this as de facto proof that Latin remains used: Et cetera.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y agoveni, vidi, exempli gratia
- WalterBright 4y agoIt isn't necessary to learn Latin in order to be familiar with words that are de facto English words.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y agoI would posit that for Latin words and phrases to have become “de facto” English is ex post facto the historical prevalence of people having learned Latin.
- HKH2 4y ago... AD, et al, ibid, n.b., i.e., e.g., etc. To be fair, I've encountered Latin the most in philosophical texts which I can't say are read all that often