From: Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>
Subject: Re: long quotation problem
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:39:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68CE7216-D48D-4799-ACCE-C1D58F79D287@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9B440F30-F6E8-4405-A7FC-11D04CF0F092@uni-bonn.de>
Among printers this Latinate gibberish (which was “taken” from
Cicero) was known as “greeked text” or as “printers’ Greek”—which is
really nonsense and yet another reason not to pay attention to it!
Alan
On Oct 21, 2005, at 1:40 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hey, please don't take the famous "lorem ipsum" for Latin, or those
> knowing Latin will be offended... This is just random gibberish
> looking slightly Latin :-)
>
> Thomas
>
> On Oct 21, 2005, at 6:56 PM, Peter Rolf wrote:
>
>
>> please, *no* more latin examples.
>>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-21 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-21 15:03 Alan Bowen
2005-10-21 16:56 ` Peter Rolf
2005-10-21 17:40 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2005-10-21 18:04 ` Peter Rolf
2005-10-21 18:39 ` Alan Bowen [this message]
2005-10-21 17:01 ` Willi Egger
2005-10-21 17:33 ` Hans Hagen Test
2005-10-21 17:35 ` Hans Hagen Test
2005-10-21 19:49 ` Alan Bowen
2005-11-09 12:30 ` Hans Hagen
2005-11-09 15:27 ` Alan Bowen
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