I thought layout software had stopped using this Latin-style text years ago. It makes it too easy for someone looking at a newspaper or magazine page, without zooming in, to assume all the text boxes have stories in them. Not sure how you'd miss it on labels throughout the packing process.
Wait....is that phrase still used by electronic type setting engines? Maybe printers print it by default or something when reset...
FYI:: that is jumbled latin from a book by Cicero used since the 1500s as default type setting text..
That's great! I edited and published a newspaper for about a decade and learned about it then, and it was not mentioned that part of it came from Cicero, only that it was randomized typeface and gibberish.
A "keep an open mind and know that what you learned years ago might be incomplete" lesson!
I learned this after a presentation of a desktop publishing software. Some person objected to seeing the word “anus”. I went to our editor, who said exactly, “we are _not_ editing Cicero”.
(Anus means “ring” in Latin) <- I think.
I was probably too curt, bad habits from the other site.
Comments
I just read this out load and summoned 13 demons. 🤬🤬🤬
FYI:: that is jumbled latin from a book by Cicero used since the 1500s as default type setting text..
https://www.lipsum.com/
A "keep an open mind and know that what you learned years ago might be incomplete" lesson!
(Anus means “ring” in Latin) <- I think.
I was probably too curt, bad habits from the other site.