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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread greeking #122964 02/15/2004 10:33 PM Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 619 Carpal Tunnel Country grapho addict grapho addict Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 619 Carpal Tunnel Country I am trying to unmungify this recent post in another thread: I love how the de facto greeking these days is a piece of ciceronian Latin, transmungified. I think it means that "greeking" is a form of code used by some elite on the Net and they favor crafting their messages in a corruption of ciceronian Latin. Have I got that right? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: greeking #122965 02/15/2004 10:41 PM Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 81 Jenet journeyman Jenet journeyman Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 81 Greeking is supposed to be a printers' term for setting semi-random text just to fill up space and see how it looks. These days the standard text used for greeking is not Greek put pseudo-Latin, the infamous "lorem ipsum", which is a garbled form of a passage from Cicero. Details at http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=95516 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: greeking #122966 02/15/2004 11:02 PM Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 619 Carpal Tunnel Country grapho addict grapho addict Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 619 Carpal Tunnel Country Interesting that one of the great orators and thinkers of ancient times should have his "lorem ipsum" used as mindless filler. Have we evolved so far beyond Cicero ... or so far behind? Thanks for the explanation. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: greeking #122967 02/15/2004 11:11 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont mindless filler ah, but *is it? formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter mindless filler #122968 02/15/2004 11:37 PM Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 619 Carpal Tunnel Country grapho addict grapho addict Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 619 Carpal Tunnel Country mindless filler ... but, is it? My guess is, yes. Pap in plain english is still pap in corrupted latin. If the lorem ipsumators really had something important to say to one another, they would say it in private ... just like we do here at AWADtalk. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: mindless filler #122969 02/15/2004 11:43 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 It's true that it's mindless filler. What's not true is that that's a bad thing. They're not trying to say anything to each other, they're just checking various layouts. It's purely visual. See: http://www.lipsum.com/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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