Comments on: Lorem ipsum

By: Robyn Ramesh

Robyn Ramesh — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:49:19 +0000

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By: James

James — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:47:28 +0000

I came across this tip in the SF Chronicle a couple of years ago. Microsoft Word will automatically generate Lorem Ipsum text. Type “=lorem(Number1,Number2)” replacing Number1 with the number of paragraphs you want and Number2 with the length of each paragraph in sentences.

By: John

John — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:45:47 +0000

While working on an ad for a client, I used Lorem Ipsum for the filler text:

Client: Got the ad & love it, but what does that text say?

Me: It’s Latin for “This is filler text”.

Client: Where did you learn latin?

By: Laurens

Laurens — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:47:34 +0000

I tried the same with the spellchecker of Open Office, which doesn’t really come up with such a creative correction. I can only guess that the merger parties must have brought out the best in both the people and the software

By: Jan Cox

Jan Cox — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:44:33 +0000

On the eve of the merger of Aldus and Adobe, a ‘yearbook’ was published by the Aldusians. Someone took the liberty to spell-check the “Lorem ipsum” text. When picking the alternatives suggested by the PageMaker spellchecker, this was the result:

Lorna’s dolorous bosom aiming consecutively at him, Eliot felt eclipsed by his damn pneumonia. (His) ethmoids nabbed him with the tenacity of a lorikeet. He drooled at this large Algerian with irate voluptuousness. He wished he’d taken an enema at the Venus Quai, or at least (some) nostril exercise at Ulamcorper Station–that cesspit of libertines–but his nasal equipment at every commode was already consecrated. “God (he thought), I’ll atone for this. Her hindquarters are of a golden hairiness, yet her veiled voluptuaries are consequently the homeliest.” Then, slowly, he figured it out: they were only falsies.

From “Manutius, The Aldus Yearbook 1984–1994″, Seattle, 1994