I found it in a game manual, of all things.
Ut aliquat. Ut prat, vel et dolor ing ent wisi.
I may be wrong, but it seems like “greeking,” nonsense text that is used to indicate typographic style. It usually has the feel of faux-Latin.
Sounds like a more guttural dialect of the usual Lorem Ipsum, though. There’s no “aliquat” in classical cod-Latin, for example.
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I may be wrong, but it seems like “greeking,” nonsense text that is used to indicate typographic style. It usually has the feel of faux-Latin.
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I was going to suggest the same thing. Googling for subphrases of that turns up a lot of pages which seem to be various greeked mockups.
The classic “lorem ipsum” isn’t so much fake Latin as badly mangled Latin. The common phraseology can be identified as a passage from something by Cicero, so badly chopped up as not to be readily intelligible:
As that article observes:
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I may be wrong, but it seems like “greeking,” nonsense text that is used to indicate typographic style. It usually has the feel of faux-Latin.
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So this is something like “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”, .i.e an exercise to test things out, it it wasn’t erased before mass printing?
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So this is something like “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”, .i.e an exercise to test things out, it it wasn’t erased before mass printing?
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It’s used when you are designing a document, say, a newsletter. If the copy hasn’t been written yet, you need some random filler text to see what the final will look like.
It translates to “etaoin shrdlu”…
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I found it in a game manual, of all things.
Ut aliquat. Ut prat, vel et dolor ing ent wisi.
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Lorem ipsum text.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet… Sorry. I typed those fake words for years and years at the magazine to estimate how many words I had for a given article.