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Dog Latin, or cod Latin is a phrase or jargon that imitates Latin, [1] often by what is referred to as "translating" English words (or those of other languages) into Latin by conjugating or declining them, as if they were Latin words. Dog Latin usually is a humorous device mocking scholarly seriousness.
Pseudo-runes are letters that look like Germanic runes but are not true ancient runes. The term is mostly used of incised characters that are intended to imitate runes, often visually or symbolically, sometimes even with no linguistic content, but it can also be used to describe characters of other written languages which resemble runes, for example: Old Turkic script, Old Hungarian script ...
Finally, Sache, as a placeholder, loosely corresponding to Latin res, describes an event or a condition. A generic term used especially when the speaker cannot think of the exact name or number, also used in enumerations analogously to et cetera , is the colloquial schlag-mich-tot or schieß-mich-tot (literally "strike/shoot me dead", to ...
[6] [7] The physical source may have been the 1914 Loeb Classical Library edition of De finibus, where the Latin text, presented on the left-hand (even) pages, breaks off on page 34 with "Neque porro quisquam est qui do-" and continues on page 36 with "lorem ipsum ...", suggesting that the galley type of that page was mixed up to make the dummy ...
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Part of the look is the whitespace between and around words, and actual Latin just wouldn't look right - "ing" at the end of English words is very common, but you don't find letters with descenders like "g" at the end of Latin words. PaulGS All three of you are missing the other point of the text: it isn't supposed to make sense.
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