Benigne! lets speak Latin.

thiskoreamericanlife wrote: I took 2 years of Latin and I don't remember anything. By the way, isn't "Lorem Ipsum" Greek? In publishing, we use Lorem Ipsum for text placeholder, and we call that "Greeking".

ahhhh! TYPO ALERT! I meant DOLOREM ipsum hahahaha (the autocorrect on my windows phon must've changed it. Its not Latin friendly). It means (or is interpreted as: pain by itself, or pain in itself. Lol. Thanks for catching that! Lol. The reson o posted that was to show that the replies i was getting were painful. Lol

but back to your question about it being Greek; having taken Latin , I'm sure you understand the strong relations between the empires and how they influenced each other, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that there might be similarities and roots in the words. Haha. But, no i think it may be Latin. I've never really heard of the word "Lorem", but I know Ipsum means- itself. Therefore we can assume that because there is on Latin word, the other is also Latin.

Funny thing is i can tell you a million ways how to say "he killed him" but i can't tell you what Lorem means. Lol. That's the flaw of Latin, we Latin speakers (readers and writers, because Latin cannot be truly spoken) are limited to the ancient texts and literature available to us, and the Romans tended to lean toward the whole, murder/drama type literature.

haha! same here...i had 4 years of latin and i remember so little of it....
i can recite agricola, agricoli, agricolae and thats about it....or maybe vini, vici, vicit...?

funny tho, latin's structure is very much like japanese in that the verb is at the end. i'm still trying to get use to the construct because you don't know what is being said until the very end of the sentence. so instead of "i ate an apple", it's "I, apple....I ate"! haha