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As an alternative theory, (and because Latin scholars do this sort of thing) someone tracked down a 1914 Latin edition of De Finibus which challenges McClintockās 15th century claims and suggests that the dawn of lorem ipsum was as recent as the 20th century. The 1914 Loeb Classical Library Edition ran out of room on page 34 for the Latin phrase ādolorem ipsumā (sorrow in itself). Thus, the truncated phrase leaves one page dangling with ādo-ā, while another begins with the now ubiquitous lorem ipsum. Been either fished for, or wished.
Controversy in the Design World
Whether a medieval typesetter chose to garble a well-known (but non-Biblicalāthat would have been sacrilegious) text, or whether a quirk in the 1914 Loeb Edition inspired a graphic designer, itās admittedly an odd way.
One brave soul did take a stab at translating the almost-not-quite-Latin. You donāt want them wondering why you filled their website with a foreign language, and you certainly donāt want anyone prematurely publishing it.
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So when is it okay to use lorem ipsum? First, lorem ipsum works well for staging. Itās like the props in a furniture storeāfiller text makes it look like someone is home. The same WordPress template might eventually be home to a fitness blog, a photography website, or the online journal of a cupcake fanatic. Lorem ipsum helps them imagine what the lived-in website.
Usage and Examples
- One word of caution: make sure your client knows.
- You donāt want them wondering why you filled.
- That is cheated out of its justification ā an object.
- In an attempt to make the days before computerized.
- Thus, the truncated phrase leaves.
Second, useĀ lorem ipsumĀ if you think the placeholder text will be too distracting. For specific projects, collaboration between copywriters and designers may be best, however, like Karen McGrane said, draft copy has a way of turning any meeting about layout decisions into a discussion about word choice. So donāt be afraid to useĀ lorem ipsumĀ to keep everyone focused.
