LOREM.

April 1, 2007 by 17 Comments

Cursor Mundi 25464: “Nu ask i noþer gra ne grene, Ne stede scrud, ne lorem scene.”

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur magna. Ut imperdiet sem at diam. Nulla sit amet lorem eu purus pulvinar sagittis. Nunc est. Curabitur elit justo, mollis eu, semper dictum, molestie ut, sapien. Sed venenatis viverra arcu. Suspendisse potenti. Pellentesque enim diam, laoreet id, pretium fringilla, eleifend sit amet, nunc. Aliquam porta interdum ipsum. Nam nisl dui, congue vitae, gravida condimentum, egestas vitae, arcu.

In justo massa, eleifend et, bibendum mollis, feugiat in, est. Suspendisse potenti. In a pede. Mauris blandit vestibulum nulla. Phasellus in arcu. Etiam elementum mi at sapien. Pellentesque vel pede. Fusce ipsum. Vivamus vitae metus vel turpis ultrices volutpat. Nunc elit. Phasellus purus mi, viverra in, elementum ut, volutpat id, nisi. Maecenas mi ipsum, convallis sit amet, tempor non, congue vitae, tellus. Duis est. Morbi tempor mattis eros. Pellentesque a dolor.

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Comments

  1. David says
    April 1, 2007 at 11:20 am

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean at mauris non ante varius fringilla. Aliquam erat volutpat. Cras sed leo. Phasellus tellus. Ut convallis erat ornare arcu. Etiam pulvinar malesuada est. Donec vel erat. Integer in pede et erat eleifend consectetuer. Phasellus rhoncus metus non mi. Mauris ut velit. Donec ac odio sed quam egestas sodales. Sed vel turpis eget mi placerat blandit. Pellentesque a turpis vel ligula placerat rutrum. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos. Donec porta.
    felicem diem pesce aprilum!

  2. dimrub says
    April 1, 2007 at 11:49 am

    > felicem diem pesce aprilum!
    In vero felicem!

  3. language hat says
    April 1, 2007 at 1:55 pm

    Gaudeamus igitur!

  4. marie-lucie says
    April 1, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    Gaudeamur igitu!

  5. Noetica says
    April 1, 2007 at 5:50 pm

    Da. Zašto ne? Mirabile lectu!

  6. bulbul says
    April 1, 2007 at 7:13 pm

    Ta verabože, vita nostra brevis est…

  7. John Cowan says
    April 2, 2007 at 12:03 am

    Arse longa, vitula brevis.

  8. Noetica says
    April 2, 2007 at 12:22 am

    Vitulus ovis? Vitula brébis? O, I get it:
    Exiit diluculo
    rustica puella
    cum grege cum baculo
    cum lana novella
    Sunt in grege parvulo
    ovis et asella
    vitula cum vitulo
    caper et capella
    Conspexit in cespite
    scolarem sedere
    quid tu facis domine
    veni mecum ludere

  9. Jesse says
    April 2, 2007 at 9:27 am

    Question: Do any of you know how to translate the name Wayne into Latin? If so, could you email it to me? I’m at a loss for where to look.

  10. Richard Parker says
    April 2, 2007 at 10:19 am

    Many thanks, LanguageHat, for adding to the pleasures of life once again.
    Iphi neu hauto doit
    iderite derest ofdis
    inlatin
    regards
    Richard

  11. language hat says
    April 2, 2007 at 1:26 pm

    Jesse: Wayne is simply an alternate form of the word wain = wagon, so you might use Plaustrum as a Latin equivalent (plaustrum being a Latin word for ‘wagon’).

  12. marie-lucie says
    April 2, 2007 at 1:46 pm

    If Wayne is the name of a man, and you want to address him in Latin, his name would be more likely to be tha masculine form Plaustrus, and in addressing him you would say Plaustre!

  13. Conrad says
    April 2, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    How about ‘Waynus’?

  14. Per Jørgensen says
    April 2, 2007 at 5:34 pm

    Nu ask i grener nødig grønnes, ei stedets skrudde Lorem lønnes.

  15. language hat says
    April 2, 2007 at 8:08 pm

    How about ‘Waynus’?
    Spelled “Venus,” one presumes.

  16. Noetica says
    April 2, 2007 at 11:33 pm

    How about ‘Waynus’?
    Alternatives, using other words for waggon:
    Karol (Charles, Karl, etc.) from carrus.
    (Carol, for a female waggon.)
    (Sarah, for a female waggon, from sarracum.)
    Vector, from vehiculum, through vecturarius, a waggoner who uses a vehiculum.
    (Vectoria, for a female waggon.)
    Can’t make anything from plostellum, diminutive of plaustrum. See Horace: “plostello adjungere mures” (“to harness mice to a waggon”).

  17. BillM says
    April 20, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    Funny I just now used “lorem” for some filler:
    <!– thus endeth the front matter –>
    <title>Lorem Ipsum: Dolor Sit Amet</title>
    <subtitle/>
    <epigraph>
    <attribution>Cicero</attribution>
    <para>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</para>
    </epigraph>
    <section><title>This is an A-head</title>
    <para>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Phasellus dapibus dictum magna. Ut eu enim et turpis posuere lobortis. Etiam leo. Aliquam congue, lorem sed interdum aliquet, elit lorem semper nisi, quis lobortis urna felis at nibh. Maecenas<footnote xml:id=”h583046-fn1″ label=”1″><para>Manifestation…
    See http://www.lipsum.com/ for the original Ciceronian passage.

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