feugifacilisi and latin-like gibberish

[A. Bullen]

Peter--

This is automatically generated by the Front Page Web Wizard. The latin text
is simply placeholding fluff to indicate where one should place text. IMHO, a
good reason not to use web wizards to build a page (cranky today, sorry). I
would imagine that these pages are generated and then uploaded along with
everything else by accident by the Front Page publishing gizmo.

Andy Bullen

Petter Naess wrote:

> Can someone explain the curious - and surely unintended - occurrence of
> Latin or bogus Latin at certain web-sites? A recurring text begins:
>
> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diem nonumm=
> y
> nibh euismod tincidunt ut lacreet dolore magna aliguam erat volutpat. Ut
> wisis enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tution ullamcorper
> suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis te
> feugifacilisi. Duis autem dolor... and so on.
>
> A Webferret search on the nonsense word "feugifacilisi" therein turned up
> about 50 such sites - you can sample one at
>
> http://www.chinatownphx.com/technolo.htm
>
> I suspect this has something to do with FrontPage - when I load the
> FrontPage editor and create a new file using one of the one-column body
> options, I find the same text! I assume they've used this meaningless
> gibberish to represent "text that goes here" without confusing people wit=
> h
> meaning, but for me this is not helpful. I guess I must stop attributing
> meaning to words. What really baffles me though is how this stuff gets on
> to the web!
>
> Another curious example of Latin is to be found at the State Department
> Political-Military Affairs Bureau's Mine Web Page at
>
> http://www.mineweb.org/html/profiles.html
>
> (although the *.org rather than *.gov domain arouses suspicions...)
>
> There the text is:
>
> Experieris non Dianam magis montibus quam Minervam inerare. Vale. Ridebis=
> ,
> et licet rideas. Ego ille quem nosti apros et quidem pulcherrimos cepi.
> Ipse? inquis. Ipse; non tamen ut omnino ab inertia mea et quete iscederem=
> =2E
>
> Although my Latin is rusty - hardly anyone in Norway speaks it these days
> - this does seem to bear a closer resemblance to the real thing, at least
> parts of it.
>
> I have made an effort to find some discussion of this matter on the web,
> but nobody seems to have broached it - have any of you encountered this
> strange phenomenon, and can you explain it?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Petter Naess
> Information Resource Center
> U.S. Information Service  (USIS)
> American Embassy
> Drammensvn.18
> 0244 Oslo, Norway
> phone 22562522
> fax 22440436
> email pnaess at usis.no