Something funny on the way to the forum,
I found a page that said "ipsum lorum".
What does it mean?
Is it something obscene?
Is it meaningful or only decorum?

Followed by the words "dolor sit amet"
My heart raced and I broke into a sweat.
My eyes started to strain;
Was I going insane?
Ha! Trick question, don't answer that yet.

"Consectetur adipisicing elit",
Now I was ready to pitch a big fit.
Confused and perplexed,
I scanned the rest of the text.
It was as easy to read as sanskrit.

I seriously considered going for unction,
'Til I remembered the famous search function.
Google quickly displays,
"Lorum Ipsum's a phrase
Commonly found on pages under construction!"

Good old J>C
Clever obi -

I figure you know this already, but for others who may not: the lorem ipsum text is what is known as Greeking, though the text itself is in the main Latin. Place filler. IIRC, it is partially based on a text from Cicero.

I had only within the last 2 months discovered its purpose as a placeholder for text. I thought, wow, our copywriter knows latin, cool! Then I looked up lorem Ipsum.

looking up lorem ipsum

It would be a cool but totally useless skill to commit the whole Lorum Ipsum text to memory.

Actually, maybe not useless...it would be fun to give random soliloquies, or start typing it as someone looks over your shoulder...

I rarely have need of Greeking, but on those occasions when it's useful I use a lovely program called MacLorem which generates text in Lorem ipsum Latin, an all-uppercase version called LOREM IPSVM, Champagnois Old French, Old English, Middle High German, Old Dutch, Finnish, Ancient Greek, Etruscan, an old, romanized form of Japanese, Swahili, Proto-Indo-European, Quenya (an “ancient” language invented by author J.R.R. Tolkien), Hawaiian, Gibberish (entirely non-language text). The text is bogus, but I believe that at least the vocabulary is more or less authentic. Fun stuff, in any case.

A sample of "Proto-Indo-European": Mater swesor kmtom sunu derwo bhereg sawel espeket, ek'womos bhrater ewewkwont dhugheter. Owioom rotho wlunaa bherontm widntei kwrnneuti espeket kwesyo hakhs kwetwor iak'om sebhi eest owis, aghnutoi hakhs owis penkwe tu. Penkwe, woghom iak'om widntmos: neghi, keer owioom derwo dheghom ne megam. Neer woghom widntmos:, hakhs treyes, nokwt agontm keer megam, widhewa sneigwh oinomkwe, kwrnneuti bhago westrom nsmei owis gwrrum, aghnutoi ooku penkwe woi. Bhereg swesor no kwesyo mater dheghom sunu dheghom, espeket ghmmenm. Bher ghe bhereg keer bhago oinom neghi pater keer weghontm nu oinos kwetwor gwrrum pholo gwrreei ek'womos owioom esti moi penkwe bhorom owioom moi owis aghnutoi.

Available at http://judebear.daveward.net/ if there are any other interested Mac users hereabouts.

Peter

some nice fonts there, thanks!

I agree.

A sample of "Proto-Indo-European": Mater swesor kmtom sunu derwo bhereg sawel espeket, ek'womos bhrater ewewkwont dhugheter. Owioom rotho wlunaa bherontm widntei kwrnneuti espeket kwesyo hakhs kwetwor iak'om sebhi eest owis, aghnutoi hakhs owis penkwe tu. Penkwe, woghom iak'om widntmos: neghi, keer owioom derwo dheghom ne megam. Neer woghom widntmos:, hakhs treyes, nokwt agontm keer megam, widhewa sneigwh oinomkwe, kwrnneuti bhago westrom nsmei owis gwrrum, aghnutoi ooku penkwe woi. Bhereg swesor no kwesyo mater dheghom sunu dheghom, espeket ghmmenm. Bher ghe bhereg keer bhago oinom neghi pater keer weghontm nu oinos kwetwor gwrrum pholo gwrreei ek'womos owioom esti moi penkwe bhorom owioom moi owis aghnutoi.

LOL: it reads: Mother sister 100 sun tree bright sun "saw" (?), (something or other horse-related) brother (?) daughter. And so on ...

At first I took it to be the tale of the sun and the wind and who was stringer, which is used to illustrate transcriptions of various languages in the IPA. I guess if I needed a PIE Greeking text, I'd use one or more of the versions of Schleicher's fable (link).

From Tsuwms link I got
ipsum-generator