I first encountered this in Apple Pages with the templates for various kinds of documents. I assumed it was meaningful text and that I had somehow set the default language wrong, and I spent quite a while trying to find out how to fix that before finally Googling "lorem ipsum" and getting straightened out.
The wikipedia page uses the submitted page and another page, which looks very likely to be based on the submitted page, as its references. The author of the submitted page was actually in contact with the the person who identified the source of the scrambled passage. Long story short, take a look at the cited references before reflexively slapping a wikipedia link on the table.
What? It's the same explanation, at about half the wordcount of the that page, without asking for donations and is also most likely the source of everything in the 'landing page'. And you're somehow upvoted for saying something that's the exact opposite of what is actually the case. Curiouser and curiouser...
I was taught to copy passages from newspaper articles or ideally a sample of writing from the same author as the final text you will be setting and not to use lorem ipsum by my typography tutors. Despite what’s often said, it isn’t as good as using real english for representing the “colour” of text on a page.
Though I was interested by a thread on HN the other day where people were using Google Scribe to generate sentences, that would make an interesting (American English? Or possibly “Globish”?) dummy copy generator. Now if only someone knew how to make such a script…
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 38.4 ms ] threadMy bad, but on the other hand I didn't mean it in an imperative 'RTFM!' way, either.
Though I was interested by a thread on HN the other day where people were using Google Scribe to generate sentences, that would make an interesting (American English? Or possibly “Globish”?) dummy copy generator. Now if only someone knew how to make such a script…