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• English to Latin translation requests go here!

  These words come from Lorem Ipsum, dummy text used by graphic designers to showcase a font or typeset, rather than distract the reader with the text itself. It looks like Latin because it comes from De Finis Bonorum Et Malorum ("on the limits of good and evil"), one of Cicero's most lengthy works of Latin literature. Some of the words may be true to the original Latin, but it is designed to say nothing as many of... Source: about 2 years ago

• First Afghan and Halal bakery opens in Henrietta

  I bet it was lost in translation. Looks like a copypasta from https://lipsum.com/. The reference to not just PageMaker, but Aldus PageMaker is a clue to how long it's been around. The site has a number of other issues, too, but it's still better than third-party sites which exist only to drive traffic to delivery services or their POS. Source: about 2 years ago

• document I found that seems puzzling to me. Lots of repeated words and seems encoded

  Yeah it's dummy/greeking text. You can read all about it here: https://lipsum.com/ it has a fascinating history. Source: about 2 years ago

• I booted up mobile discord only to be met with a latin text about the costumer and pregnancy.

  Also fun fact, you can generate it on sites like this. Source: about 2 years ago

• Gave my two weeks notice and boss wants me to take on additional work

  I think that the OP should write the manual, interspersed with actual content but mostly filled with lorem ipsum that appears to be written text but would actually require it to be read rather than flipped through. It's what books/newspapers used as props have when it's not a means of communicating anything to the audience. Wasting time doing the useless manual will take away time from productive activities. Source: over 2 years ago

• Found multiple websites where the information is just copy and paste. Is this a scam or just thoughtless design by someone? It also has what google says is unintelligible Latin, I could not translate it.

  It is slightly mangled latin, but it does mean something. http://lipsum.com has the original text and translation. Source: over 2 years ago

• ELI5: How was the ability to read hieroglyphs lost in time if there has been living people in Egypt since the pharaohs?

  Or a developer. lipsum.com is my Bible. Source: over 2 years ago

• Why was lorem ipsum chosen?

  Lipsum.com has a lengthy explanation about the origins of the text. A short explanation of why is given as "The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English.". Source: over 2 years ago

• Text Generator plugin

  For reference, one could go to lipsum.com and generate 10000 words. 120 USD would then give 75 notes like this (i know, math...). So one should decide if that's worth the money and the effort. Source: over 2 years ago

• Clients want website, have no copy content…

  Just put some dummy content. That's not your job to do the content. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Copywriter will have a hard time finding a job with that resume.

  Answers (history from the 1500s to now and current usage) and text generator here: https://lipsum.com/. Source: almost 3 years ago

• English to Latin translation requests go here!

  Lorem ipsum is commonly used by graphic designers, technical writers, and software engineers to demonstrate the appearance of a font, typeface, or textual presentation without distracting the audience with read content. It looks like Latin, and a few of the words are valid Latin words, because it was taken from a well-known Latin poem (Marcus Tullius Cicero's Dē Fīnibus Bonōrum et Malōrum, "on [the] ends/limits of... Source: almost 3 years ago

• TIL: The Lorem Ipsum Dolor placeholder text is from an ancient Roman manuscript by Cicero, and has been used since the 1500s for this purpose

  Check out https://lipsum.com/ for a great piece of research on this text. Source: about 3 years ago

• English to Latin translation requests go here!

  This is a quote from Lorem ipsum: a placeholder text used in publishing, graphic design, and software testing generally used to demonstrate the visual form of a font or textual presentation. It may look like Latin (because much of it came from Latin), but it is designed to read as nonsense gibberish, so that the audience can focus on the demonstration. Source: about 3 years ago

• The lorem ipsum filler text is actually Latin

  Along with the history of the origins, you can get the passages in different languages too https://lipsum.com/. Source: over 3 years ago

• What’s an extremely useful website most people probably don’t know about?

  Lipsum.com Generates random text with a single click. Not many options but it is super fast to use. For the same thing offline, use =lorem() in any MS office product. Source: over 3 years ago