Hello everyone,

I would like to propose sort of a game:

On a few occasions there were demands for translations of what Friday says when he speaks "Lorem Ipsum". And certainly, it would be most funny to find out that he really has something reasonable to say. Unfortunately, that is not the case. At least not in a way a scholar would define "reasonable".

But that mustn't apply to us, must it?

Damocles started by translating
"Nostrud laboris nisi et commodo consequat. Excepteur sint cupidatat non proident."

If you look at that quote - half of the words don't even exist or are the result of misspelling.

But even then - he came up with: "I do all the work and he gets the reward."

And that sounds like it could be right.

So I would like to propose to translate Fridays comments anyway. Who can come up with the most belieavable (or the most intresting) versions of Friday LI?

I'll start with A. Salieri's question from the last LI thread:

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S. 263
'I waited until she was gone and then knelt down close to Friday.
"Did Bismarck and Gran...kiss?"
"Tempor incididunt ut labore," he replied enigmatically, "et dolore magna aliqua."'

That's easy, although it remains slightly mysterious:
"Even if you press for it, only time will tell. And a lot of grief (stems) from it."

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Anyone else like to try it?

I'm going to agree with you, thank you for associating me with this and vanish.

I've been too busy falling in love and getting engaged to get involved in shennanigans involving bastardised Cicero lately, sorry.

Congratulations. :-) And a party...yay!

Oh, Hilde--so now I'm associated with this too???

I've been so busy doing....something...that Lorem Ipsum hasn't been on my mind. And congrats to Damocles!!!

Best Regards,
~A.S.~

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A. Salieri = spreading chaos and mass confusion since 1750.

As entertaining as it may be to try to translate the phrases Lorem Ipsum is not really a language - just barstarised Latin, as I'm sure you know, and I heard Jasper Fforde himself say that it didn't mean anything, and he didn't know what Friday was saying.

So? I'm sure that it could be good anyway....

Congrats BTW.

'consequat est laborum' after his dad et mom kiss (for the first time after two years and a half) should be of course
'consarned effort'.

Is it not ?;-)

I'd say 'that's what makes the work worth while' myself.

Congrats Damocles. *opens the fizz and passes it round*



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Sydney University publish a student newspaper called Honi Soit. 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' means 'evil to him who evil thinks' but what does just 'honi soit' mean by itself?

seriously? or in terms of lorem ipsum? Seriously, 'soit''s an archaic subjunctive of 'to be', and 'honi' means to hold in contempt, so basically '[let ...] be held in contempt'. I think.

Otherwise it's someone who's drunk too much honey mead...



Post Edited (11-29-05 15:28)

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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.