feugifacilisi and latin-like gibberish - TYPESETTING

[Sara T.]

Hi.

It is a common typesetter thing to use this LOREM IPSUM text.  
Adobe products like Pagemaker have done it for years as filler text when
messing with layouts.
I believe typesetters have used this Latin text for actually centuries.
Not sure of its orgination, though.

Sara

At 09:10 AM 1/9/98 -0800, you 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
>
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