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Lol. Come back later. Am refining my jumbled thoughts. Thanks for your patience.
Wow. Whack me upside the head with Latin. Okey-dokey — the metaphor is hold you a place in the lunch-line?
Your “Jumbled thoughts” was a mental banana peel, I swear for a blinding instant I thought, “she thinks in Latin?”
For anybody like me whose thoughts processes get a bit slippery, “Lorem ipsum” is the giveaway. A meaningless typographers place-holding text.
Even worse, in a fog of a fettucine lunch, I thought, I shall have to be kind, this is a little messy (the kindness of teachers with impossible students)..I dont use emojis but that statement should be peppered with them. (Imagine getting completely incomprehensible homework projects which students have tried to compose using google translate!)
I beg your pardon (veniam) for that really weird moment and in my defense let me inform everyone that ‘Lorem ipsum’ starts off like Cicero, and ends up actually looking a little like corrupted later medieval texts with an enormous amount of strange sentences and spelling errors like the poor little guy with a tonsure fell asleep in the scriptorium and had to do his homework really quickly..
I suppose what is needed to complete the image, @ibisfeather, is a spilled ink bottle and cat paw prints marching across the text.🐾
For anyone out there whose brain checked out already (like mine), trying to explain.
A low-risk, high-hope (low hope, high risk?) attempt to make sense.
As a dialogue (Q and A) for better understanding.
Q (turning to the audience, reading aloud):
“Lorem Ipsum: is a classic placeholder text used in design, publishing and web development.
Origin: It comes from a scrambled passage of Latin text by Cicero, from a work called “De finibus norum et malorum” (On the Ends of Good and Evil, 45BC).
History: Typesetters in the 1500s needed text that could fill pages to TEST layouts and fonts. They used a passage from Cicero because it was classical, recognizable, and long enough to provide realistic word spacing. It contains a variety of letters shapes and word lengths, which makes it ideal for seeing how text looks in a layout.”
Q ( turning and looking to A for approval):
“Like a soundcheck: you say one, two, three in a micro. But that’s not enough to feel save that your audience of 60.000 fans will be happy with the sound. So sing a song with high and low notes, hissing or hushing, loud and quiet, drums and horns, you get the idea!
The typesetter could use a, b, c … they decided for a text.”
A (flinching inwardly) “nods expressionless”
Q (resuming to reading out loud):
“The Translation (approximate meaning) of this scrambled text: Pain itself is love, it is pain that is followed by great work and great work is pleasure. But for the smallest things, anyone who exercises labor or effort does so to receive some advantage. They do not reject the pain of duty or responsibility, nor do they enjoy it, unless it brings pleasure. Exemptions occur for those who do wrong, for they are guilty of no fault, and the work of the soul is to avoid it.”
Q (turning to A):
“I don´t know Latin and it doesn’t sound scrambled or nonsensical, right?
Why doesn´t make it sense?”
A:
“Because – for the Latin speaker – words are often cut, rearranged, or combined incorrectly. Some endings are changed, or letters added/removed. The result is it looks like Latin to the eye but has no meaningful semantic content.”
Q (turning to A while giving the audience a knowing wink):
“Okay, but grammar and semantic content ignored, the message sounds meaningful. What´s going on here? What´s the reason it´s categorized a nonsensical text?”
A (showing 0% emotion):
“Lack of logical progression.
In any normal text, sentences usually follow a chain of ideas (!):
Cause -> Effect
Question -> Answer
Statement -> Elaboration -> Conclusion
The source text (Cicero) has a structured philosophical argument, with premises and conclusions.”
Q (walking the trail):
“I still do not understand, let´s go deeper: what´s the structure / main points of a structured philosophical argument?”
A (maintaining 0% emotion):
1.Premise (Starting Point)
The argument begins with a claim or assumption.
Premises are the foundation; everything else builds on them.
2.Reasoning / Evidence
The argument then provides justification, examples (!), or explanations that support the premise. This is where the logic comes in – showing cause-effect relationships.
3.Consideration of Counterarguments
Acknowledges of opposing views
4.Conclusion / Inference
Finally, the argument draws a conclusion that follows logical from the premises and reasoning. The conclusion ties all the previous points together into a coherent message.
5.Coherence and Flow
Sentences and ideas connect logically. Each claim is linked to the next via reasoning, examples, or transitions. This allows a reader to follow the argument from start to finish.
Q (grinning, the lightbulb is flickering on):
“And the rules for any given argument, philosophical or not? For example a review or rating of K-drama?”
A:
“The core rules (premise -> reasoning -> conclusion) are universal. Philosophical arguments are just stricter about logic, abstraction, and counterargument analysis. In other contexts, arguments may relax some rules.”
Q (left hanging):
“Ughhh, it still doesn´t SOUND nonsensical, why is it categorizes nonsensical?”
A (showing signs of human life):
What makes Lorem Ipsum nonsensical isn´t the underlying idea, but how it´s presented. So even though the message about effort, pleasure, and responsibility is coherent it´s like saying: The recipe is for a cake, but all the ingredients are thrown randomly into a blender” the idea exists, but the execution is chaotic.
Lorem Ipsum is what a blender-loving emotionally dramatic impostor would write – tossing perfectly sensible ideas into a chaotic mix and calling it a masterpiece.
Q (gasping for oxygen and dignity simultaneously):…..
A (booming):
“Here comes my final patient reply: A statement only on feelings and emotions, without reasoning, evidence, or logical connection, is NOT AN ARGUMENT. It´s a personal reaction, not a reasoned claim that others can evaluate (and have fun with).
Q (relaxing):
“No more questions!”
Q (turning to the audience, shining happiness):
“My conclusion: Packmule3 using this filler shows us: Endure the silence while waiting for a beautifully constructed analyses of Legend of the Female General In search of Mulan. The elegance of an argument must be strictly maintained! Just wait! In the meantime filling the empty space with a 525 year old text meaning nothing, but teaching us a lesson most of us were never taught: stop feeling, try thinking. Looks like magic, actually hard work. THANK YOU.