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Mon May 17 05:58:30 UTC 2004

Hi!

A bit of a gray area, here.  This thread began by talking about the
door, then began to discuss the *content* of the site, i.e., the Lorem
Ipsum thingy.  But Lorem Ipsum isn't HP canon, so out it goes. :D

--Dicey Elf

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From:  "Mandy" <ExSlytherin at aol.com>
Date:  Sun May 16, 2004  4:25 pm
Subject:  Re: JKR Web site: All is explained.

OK.
Followed your directions to open the door and it worked. Yeah!
Got the book. Yeah!
But it's in LATIN!!!! Ahhhh!

Mandy

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From: Nora Renka <nrenka at yahoo.com>
Date: Sun May 16, 2004 4:29pm
Subject: Re: JKR Web site: All is explained.

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mandy" <ExSlytherin at a...>
wrote:
> OK.
> Followed your directions to open the door and it worked. Yeah!
> Got the book. Yeah!
> But it's in LATIN!!!! Ahhhh!

(Trying to keep this on topic)

And it's not even *good* Latin. I'm trying to read it, and I can get
out a few words, but unless it's something seriously mediaeval
transcribed authentically, a lot of the words are misspelled, and I
suspect the whole thing doesn't make sense--it's not grammatical,
either.

I'll keep looking at it some time later, but I suspect it's just
there as a kind of place holder. We could always form an HP4GU Latin
Consortium, though... :)

I doubt there are any serious clues in this. There's more than
enough to think about...Theodore Nott is very intriguing, now...

-Nora finishes her last two papers, one exam, then takes off for home
and then across the pond

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From:  "Amanda Geist" <editor at texas.net>
Date:  Sun May 16, 2004  9:23 pm
Subject:  That's not Latin on the book, was JKR Web site: All is
explained.

Mandy:

> OK.
> Followed your directions to open the door and it worked. Yeah!
> Got the book. Yeah!
> But it's in LATIN!!!! Ahhhh!

For the record. It's not in Latin. What is on the book's pages is
standard "placeholder" text that is used when doing layout, before you
have any real text. As I recall, it's something like Lorum ipsat
something-or-other. It's a sentence or two, and then it repeats. Once
you see the "Lorum," you know what it is. It's not real text, in any
language.

~Amanda

98566

From: jdr0918 <jdr0918 at hotmail.com>
Date: Sun May 16, 2004 10:53pm
Subject: Re: That's not Latin on the book, was JKR Web site: All is
explained.

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda Geist" wrote: ...It's
not in Latin. What is on the book's pages is standard "placeholder"
text that is used when doing layout, before you have any real
text...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

Ah, the dreaded "Lorem ipsum..." Which bolsters my theory that what
you will eventually find behind the door is hints and clues to Book
VI, when they are available.

--JDR, remembering "O, Sybilli, si ergo fortibus es in ero. Nobili
demus trux: si vatis enim, causan dux."

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From: Shaun Hately <drednort at alphalink.com.au>
Date: Sun May 16, 2004 10:59pm
Subject: Re: Re: That's not Latin on the book, was JKR Web site: All
is explained.

On 17 May 2004 at 4:53, jdr0918 wrote:

> Ah, the dreaded "Lorem ipsum..." Which bolsters my theory that what
> you will eventually find behind the door is hints and clues to Book
> VI, when they are available.
>
> --JDR, remembering "O, Sybilli, si ergo fortibus es in ero. Nobili
> demus trux: si vatis enim, causan dux."

Ack!

I've mentioned previously on the list that I had the
(good)(mis)fortune to have some very Snapish teachers in my life -
very Snapish indeed.

One of them, a man who seemed to have nothing even resembling a
sense of humour and who took great delight in crushing the egos of
all concerned in the class asked us to translate *that* passage on
a Latin exam in Third Form. He thought it was so funny - I was
literally sweating at my stupidity in not having a clue what it
said (I knew some of the words, sure... but they didn't make
sense).

Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
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