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Originally Posted by HarryT
It actually has a very interesting history. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
It's used by printers in situations where you want to show a client the "graphical layout" of a page without being sidetracked by the actual text being shown. It's a (very) corrupted form of an extract from Cicero's philosophical treatise "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" ("On the Purposes of Good and Evil") and is used because it "looks like" typical English in terms of the word lengths and spacings. It's been used for centuries for that purpose, but it was only very recently that it was discovered where it actually came from. |
I thought I vaguely recognized it! Hooray! Checking out the wiki now..