What's that poem?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:54 pm
What is that poem that web developers always use in place of paragraphs of text? It's in some other language that I don't know of, but I'm at least one of you know what I'm talking about. 
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Apparently it has roots in a piece of latin literature from like 45 BC (according to http://lipsum.com/)Hockey wrote:Lorem Ipsum is a poem? Cool.
I thought it was just random gibberish much like "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"
That isn't gibberish either. I believe it contains every letter of the alphabet or something similar.Hockey wrote:I thought it was just random gibberish much like "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"
Mostly correct: it contains every letter if you change it to "dogs", else there's no 's'.astions wrote:That isn't gibberish either. I believe it contains every letter of the alphabet or something similar.Hockey wrote:I thought it was just random gibberish much like "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"
I always remembered it being 'jumps' not 'dogs'...ReverendDexter wrote:Mostly correct: it contains every letter if you change it to "dogs", else there's no 's'.astions wrote:That isn't gibberish either. I believe it contains every letter of the alphabet or something similar.Hockey wrote:I thought it was just random gibberish much like "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"
I, too, always thought it was faux Latin gibberish. Thaks for the reference, Ninja!The Ninja Space Goat wrote:Apparently it has roots in a piece of latin literature from like 45 BC (according to http://lipsum.com/)