De finibus bonorum et malorum
by Cicero · first published 1471
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…uniform distribution of word lengths in mind. I couldn't find any information about it on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum > The lorem ipsum text is typically a scrambled section of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical, improper Latin. Could you please provide source? I am curious now. Alternate argument is that my…
on “Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos” ↗…really big stretch in interpretation According to Wikipedia[0], "[t]he placeholder text is taken from parts of the first book's discourse on hedonism." The first book being the first book of Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_finibus_bonorum_et_malorum
on “Jpeg2png: Silky smooth JPEG decoding – no more artifacts (2016)” ↗…page is half the battle WIN! The results are slightly different if you don't capitalize “Lorem”. Edit: lipsum.com explains the source of the text; it is a slightly garbled fragment of a sentence from de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum by Cicero: “Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem”…
on “Google Translation of Lorem Ipsum” ↗It's ultimately a corrupted version of Cicero's "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum".
on “Latin in the Voynich Manuscript” ↗Lorem Ipsum is a passage quoted from a Latin book "De finibus bonorum et malorum" and has been used by typesetters for seventy or eighty years. So the fact it can be translated shouldn't be a surprise.
on “Google translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error” ↗…or Hebrew ones might be embedding culturally insensitive words if they were "translated" from the original gibberish lorem ipsum. Or do other scripts have a pseudo-canonical passage to quote from like De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum?
on “HTML-Ipsum” ↗