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Latin because in its youth, centuries ago,
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Discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text
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Until recently, the prevailing view assumedย lorem ipsumย was born as a nonsense text. โIt’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,โย Before & Afterย magazineย answered a curious reader, โIts โwordsโ loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.โ As Cicero would…
Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage
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Until recently, the prevailing view assumedย lorem ipsumย was born as a nonsense text. โIt’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,โย Before & Afterย magazineย answered a curious reader, โIts โwordsโ loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.โ As Cicero would…
Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College
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Until recently, the prevailing view assumedย lorem ipsumย was born as a nonsense text. โIt’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,โย Before & Afterย magazineย answered a curious reader, โIts โwordsโ loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.โ As Cicero would…