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.
yabob
April 8, 2007, 12:09am
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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:
In publishing and graphic design, Lorem ipsum (/ˌlɔː.rəm ˈɪp.səm/) is a placeholder text commonly used to demonstrate the visual form of a document or a typeface without relying on meaningful content. Lorem ipsum may be used as a placeholder before final copy is available. It is also used to temporarily replace text in a process called greeking, which allows designers to consider the form of a webpage or publication, without the meaning of the text influencing the design.
Lorem ipsum is typicall...
As that article observes:
Many variations on the standard lorem ipsum text exist, some with little resemblance to the original. Other versions have additional letters — such as k, w, and z — that were uncommon or missing in the Latin, and nonsense words such as zzril, takimata, and gubergren added to the original passage to achieve a distribution of letters that more closely approximates English.
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?
Aioua
April 8, 2007, 12:44am
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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.
jayjay
April 8, 2007, 6:08am
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It translates to “etaoin shrdlu”…
I found it in a game manual, of all things.
Ut aliquat. Ut prat, vel et dolor ing ent wisi.
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.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.