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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 c
by alblue 11y ago
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.
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- duskwuff 11y agoLorem Ipsum is based on that passage, but has been mangled significantly in the adaptation. "Lorem" is half of the word "dolorem", for instance. So it can't actually be translated in any real sense. Instead, if you try translating that passage from Latin, Google Translate goes nuts. Since "Lorem Ipsum" is used as filler text in a bunch of web sites, it finds apparently parallel texts all over the place and ends up cobbling together a "translation" out of random phrases. IIRC, "lorem ipsum" alone used to translate to something like "click here"? (It's passed through unchanged now.)