Lorem Ipsum- Secret Codes!?

[Snookerman]

to most people it looks like nonsense

Isn't that kind of the point? That you can look at the text design without being distracted by the words themselves.

[jscheuer1]

Isn't that kind of the point? That you can look at the text design without being distracted by the words themselves.

IDK, I like it to at least be legible. Believe me, 'Lorem Lib Some' will not distract you, unless you let it, at which point it can become quite addictive. It's for fun, but it also gives you an idea of what the design would be like with real words. There are things you cannot tell about a layout, or that at least might be easy to miss if you can't read it anyway.

CTSOBI

[molendijk]

The text isn't perhaps entirely nonsense. Anyhow, odire in exists in Latin ('have feelings of hatred towards'). And eu might be a 'vulgar' (in the sense of 'vulgar Latin': popular dialect) form of eō or of eum ('him'), since in vulgar Latin the final /m/ as well as the distinction between /u/ and /o/ tend to disappear. So we end up with I hate him.
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Arie.

[djr33]

Not really. That sentence says "in - 'him' - I hate", maybe. But that's not the way it would be written in Latin anyway. In takes the accusative or dative, but hate wouldn't use a preposition. And this all assumes that "eu" is for some reason an odd form of "is ea id".

Now if you're bored enough, maybe you should record the entire text and play it backwards... maybe that'll get somewhere.

[molendijk]

Not really. That sentence says "in - 'him' - I hate", maybe. But that's not the way it would be written in Latin anyway.

Not in classical Latin, but in vulgar Latin: yes, see below

It takes the accusative or dative, but hate wouldn't use a preposition.

Or it takes the ablativus. And it tends more and more to take a preposition in vulgar Latin, see also here.

And this all assumes that "eu" is for some reason an odd form of "is ea id".

The accusative of 'is' is 'eum', the ablativus is 'eo'. Given the fact that the final 'm' disappears in vulgar Latin (i.e. rosam --> rosa(m) --> rosa --> rose (French)), and also given the confusion of: 'u' or 'o'?, my assumption about 'eu' isn't that illogical.

Now if you're bored enough, maybe you should record the entire text and play it backwards... maybe that'll get somewhere.

As soon as I have the time!
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Arie.

[jscheuer1]

There is a more or less 'official' translation:

http://www.lipsum.com/

But that specific passage isn't covered. Odio is translated there as 'dislike'.