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Course Module A - Unit 2
Course Module A - Unit 2
The best explanation that I have found is at the Straight Dope. It quotes Richard McClintock, a Latin professor turned publications director at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.
Professor McClintock took time out of his day to email me. Nearly every article you read about Lorem Ipsum quotes Richard, as he made the discovery that Lorem Ipsum is a slightly mangled passage from Cicero. Thanks, Professor! Oddly, he likes his eggs scrambled (with a little cream cheese thrown in).
If you're really curious, you may read the original Latin. De Finibus, Bonorum et Malorum. Liber Primus. By Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-45 BC)
His idea, exposed in the "spanish" paragraph, was that European languages used all the same words borrowed from Latin, differing in grammar and pronunciation. In order to build a "lingua franca" -one of the holy grails of that time- he combined a Latin subset with an extremely simplified grammar and morphology.
- event type: Meeting
- by: mark, john
- venue: perth