Lorem Ispum, Et Cetera
Often times in
technical literature, the phrase "Lorem Ispum" appears as a generic
filler for titles, names, and other nouns. Microsoft user's guides,
back when such items were printed, used Lorem Ipsum extensively, as
did the Aldus PageMaker. In fact, Lorem Ipsum has been used as a standard
for text layout since the 1500s. The variation of character widths and
"p" with a descender provided typesetters with a means to estimate the
space needed to print a typical page, and the phrase, being in a foreign
language, does not unnecessarily take the reader's focus off the main
point of the article. Latin seems to be a good "neutral" language to
use for printed matter that would ultimately be translated into multiple
other languages. One problem though: Lorem Ipsum is not Latin. In fact,
Lorem Ipsum is really no language at all, but is adopted from a passage
in Latin by Cicero, in 45 BC: "Neque porro quisquam est qui do lorem
ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit...," which translated,
is, "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants
to have it, simply because it is pain..." Lorem Ipsum has become a noun,
since a collection of Latin-type words arranged in pseudo-sentences
and paragraphs that look authentic is referred to as Lorem Ipsum.
Here is one of many online Lorem Ipsum generators.
A huge collection of my 'Factoids' can be accessed from my 'Kirt's Cogitations'
table of contents.
Topical Smorgasbord, another manifestation of Factoids,
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All pertain to topics that are related to the general engineering and science theme
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