Until recently, the prevailing view assumed lorem ipsum was born as a nonsense text. “It’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,” Before & After magazine answered a curious reader, “Its ‘words’ loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.”

As Cicero would put it, “Um, not so fast.”

The placeholder text, beginning with the line “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit”, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin.

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is credited with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of lorem ipsum, his interest was piqued by consectetur—a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (“On the Extremes of Good and Evil”), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero.

In particular, the garbled words of lorem ipsum bear an unmistakable resemblance to sections 1.10.32–33 of Cicero’s work, with the most notable passage excerpted

41 Responses

  1. Thank you foor the god writeup. It inn ffact was a amusement account it. Loook advancsd too mire addeed agreezble frm you! However, hoow could wwe communicate?

  2. Denofa’s Italian Deli6946 Torresdale Ave.Inside of the Tacony part of PhiladelphiaIs one particular of the Simplest cheesesteaks in close proximity to!Clean sliced sirloin chipped steak , completed upon the premises

  3. Loginsgd777? Yeah, I played there last week. Easy to get started, which I like. Games are okay, nothing too crazy, but they get the job done. If you are searching for easy gameplay, give it a whirl at loginsgd777!

  4. Been playing on x6666game for a while now, gotta say, I’m hooked. Great selection of games, decent payouts, and the community is pretty cool. Give x6666game a try, you might just end up loving it!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *