Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet... What is Lorem Ipsum ? Is it real Latin ? by nicnicy

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# Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

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# What is Lorem Ipsum ?
Years ago I went with my daughter to her Latin professor to ask him about "Lorem Ipsum"
I had a few years of Latin but could not really translate the text i used for my design mockup.

To our astonishment the professor could not decipher it all for some words he called 
"pig-latin" or
jibberish non-excising words.

This is true if You consider the most Lorem ipsum generators use a 
randomized way of constructing 
pages and pages of filler text for the printing and typesetting industry.

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# Lorem Ipsum is not Pig Latin
But... Lorem Ipsum is not a random made up text but has a real rooting in  
classical Latin literature from 45 BC, thus it is over  2000 years old !

![rome-2350633_1920.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbvixeo81WXeNoTLFHwsZKJeKMJWdDu6FMzYZ9qbX3xSw/rome-2350633_1920.jpg)

# What Google says

Google-translate 
translates Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet to:
Lorem ipsum carots

Carots ?

Every first year knows dolor - dolorem means "pain"
Yes life can give you carots 

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# The Real Lorem Ipsum dolor

The passage "Lorem ipsum ..." is taken from text that reads, "Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit ...," which translates as,
 "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."

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 Lorem Ipsum was first written in sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of
 "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum"
 (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. 

# Why is Lorem Ipsum sometimes unreadable ?
Most online generators and most software packages make a random made up version.




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Mauris iaculis quis erat eget consectetur. Nam cursus aliquet consectetur. Proin elit lorem, euismod eu malesuada vel, ultrices nec velit. Sed viverra mi libero, sed tincidunt quam semper nec. In sagittis malesuada scelerisque. Vestibulum felis nisl, congue a quam eget, hendrerit volutpat lacus. Sed tempor bibendum elit, eu dictum eros. In mollis faucibus sem, a posuere justo tempor sed.

Cras quis elit consequat, molestie elit sed, scelerisque ligula. Aliquam consequat in diam a fringilla. Mauris in lectus vehicula, condimentum sem a, luctus augue. Ut consequat vehicula tellus non porttitor. In orci est, mattis in tincidunt sed, maximus ut libero. In at tincidunt nisl, vel facilisis orci. Quisque convallis, metus eget congue faucibus, velit urna porttitor diam, vitae luctus velit dui nec magna. Proin ultricies suscipit dolor ac vestibulum. Duis tincidunt orci sit amet malesuada molestie. Etiam ullamcorper ex eu augue posuere, non posuere tellus ullamcorper.
Generated 5 paragraphs, 459 words, 3088 bytes of Lorem Ipsum


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