To the casual observer, it may seem like I’m not getting many comments lately. I have of late been berated for my inability to discern the relative merits of music videos, but otherwise my readership has been largely silent-or so it may look.
In fact, I have been fairly inundated with comments from diverse sources, all of which have been blocked by my alert spamcatcher. I can actually view these comments, and, because in this sphere I am as a God, I can inflict them on my helpless readers should I so choose. As I assume that all my readers are satisfied with the sizes and shapes of their bodily parts, I do not so choose.
Today, however, the filters caught a message that I can’t quite figure out. It purportedly comes from this quite respectable left wing blog, called The Politics Blog. Oddly enough, the comment is supposedly affixed to the “Contact Me” page that you can access at the upper right of my home page. The “Contact Me” page doesn’t accept comments, so far as I know. Even more oddly, the comment is in what appears to be Latin:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Integer mollis egestas dolor. Etiam molestie. Morbi.
On the other hand, maybe it’s Romulan, Esperanto, or inspired gibberish. It’s definitely not Church Latin, take my word. There’s not a single “Et cum spiritu tuo” in there.
There are free on-line translators from English to Latin, but I couldn’t find anything that went the other way. I have, therefore, referred this to one of our local Democrats, who is a former Latin teacher. If there’s anyone out there who cares to take a crack at it, I’d love to hear from them. Assuming it’s not obscene, I’ll post the translation as soon as I get it.
Since the subject is Latin, I append hereto the funniest Latin Lesson ever filmed:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8[/youtube]
UPDATE: That was quick. A commenter says that the post is “pseudo Latin…layout for printer’s dummies”. So, nothing clever or funny. Oh well. What’s troubling about this is that whoever was responsible hijacked a real website’s URL.
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