| Contrary to popular
belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It
has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature
from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard
McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney
College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure
Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage,
and going through the cites of the word in classical
literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem
Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of
"de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes
of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This
book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very
popular during the Renaissance. The first line of
Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..",
comes from a line in section 1.10.32.
The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since
the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested.
Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus
Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced
in their exact original form, accompanied by English
versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum
available, but the majority have suffered alteration
in some form, by injected humour, or randomised
words which don't look even slightly believable.
If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum,
you need to be sure there isn't anything embarrassing
hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum
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chunks as necessary, making this the first true
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of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful
of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem
Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem
Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition,
injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.
It is a long established fact that a reader will
be distracted by the readable content of a page
when looking at its layout. 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. Many
desktop publishing packages and web page editors
now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text,
and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many
web sites still in their infancy. Various versions
have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident,
sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply
random text. It has roots in a piece of classical
Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000
years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor
at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up
one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur,
from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the
cites of the word in classical literature, discovered
the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections
1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum
et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil)
by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise
on the theory of ethics, very popular during the
Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem
ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line
in section 1.10.32. |
