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- goeatsmsht, on 10/12/2007, -6/+154OMG!!!!! LOREM IPSUM dolor sit amet, consectetur Zune adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Microsoft. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud Steve Jobs, exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Apple, duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia Top 10 deserunt mollit anim id est laborum!!!
- synth7, on 10/12/2007, -5/+90Someone probably just forgot to change the placeholder text
- wild, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38Thats a designers nightmare right there...bad proofing on a printed piece.
- dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31I do this too, but sometimes it's more of a pain explaining to the customer that it doesn't mean anything, and it's just filler...I always get questions like "what language is that?" and "You ARE gonna remove that, right?"
- Scrappy1850, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23what?
- GaffleSnipe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Well it probably wasn't a spanish - speaking designer.
- tuxthepenguin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15For those wondering what Lorem ipsum is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
Basically a place holder for text, useful in designing layout of text.
You can find generators for the text too: http://www.lipsum.com/ - griz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18They didn't think it was Spanish, they just didn't remove the placeholder.
- Lionstone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14As a webmaster that creates templates using this, I find it hilarious!
Someone once stole a template from me and placed it live on their site with half of it still on there.
Classic! - iceperson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10except that Home Depot didn't manufacture the product that it's printed on...
- Derrelicte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9For someone who's supposedly in their second year of Latin, you sure don't know how to spell the Ides of March.
- Derrelicte, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11It isn't Latin.
It's gibberish as a result of mixing/splicing Latin words. It's used to model how the pattern of letters/words will typically look in English without having any meaning. - biggbrother, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Inaccurate title.
- bobbyi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8That article led me to the article on "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog) which lists the phrases used by Windows in different languages to demo fonts. By far the best is Latvian: "I can eat glass and it doesn't hurt me."
- Scrappy1850, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6it is taken from latin... but if its actually latin then what does it mean? its gibberish
The text is derived from Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Ends of Goods and Evils, or alternatively [About] The Purposes of Good and Evil ). The original passage began: Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit - randf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7agree, inaccurate. and more BS submitted via the consumerist.
- Scrappy1850, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6but its not latin either
- doktorrocket, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Consumerist diggum spammum est.
- gkzhang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Lorem Ipsum was actually taken from a speech given by Cicero.
It was originally latin, but the actual lorem ipsum has been modified from the original speech.
Wikipedia b*tches:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_Ipsum - jay0312, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, seriously.
Why is this on digg?
Some random Home Depot had some random sign that was done wrong.
I found a typo in my textbook. Should I scan it, upload it, and post it on digg? - OSDAgent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Or maybe it was the design department finally getting back at marketing for asking for one more impossible turn-around, but not getting them the content they needed in time.
- woody24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I use it all the time too. Sent a client a comp website to review, and to tell them to get back with me with changes, and copy to flow in. In my email I clearly state that this is placeholder text, and am waiting for the real copy. I get an email back asking why its all in Spanish, because non of their target audience would most likely speak Spanish. After a laugh, and a few emails sent to co-workers I had to replace it with "This is just temporary placeholder copy. This is just temporary placeholder copy...." before she got the idea.
- migraineboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Of course, this is a good reason not to use "Lorem Ipsum". There are plenty of good reasons not to use "Lorem Ipsum", but I think the best explanation comes from 37signals' book "Getting Real": http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch11_Use_Real_Words.php
- Tripw0l, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3home depot didn't package that box....they sell it
It's a Hampton Bay product. - brnews, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3because first page has more to do about who posts it then what the post is about
go ahead.. bury this rotting comment! - cliffhanger407, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's nothing. You should see what their application for native Spanish speakers looks like.
- Irfit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4And the spanish translation is horrible (i speak spanish and i dont understand a thing)
- Skunkhair, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hampton Bay is owned by Home Depot. Hampton Bay products are manufactured overseas, not by Home Depot. We just own the name.
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Probably had them printed at a FedEx Kinkos.... if 4 can mean 8, clear can mean black and strip can mean spiral anything is possible.
- tiberone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2lmao China - "Windows makes the nation prosperous and safe, Jack of all trades!"
Oh, those Chinese and their crazy brainwashing propaganda... - yankeeboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What's the problem? Don't they speak Spanish in Latin America?
- Scrappy1850, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1good, register for the class. then you will learn that the phrase is NOT latin. its gibberish
- tiberone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1umm neither of those two things were funny.
- CryoNine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1DuggMirror didn't get it... anyone have an alternative link? It seems hosed.
- dpk87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was under the impression that Hampton Bay is owned by Home Depot.
- shannonxj, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1Looks like a spam. Id better go to http://www.rollingpricesback.com rather than reading this digg.
- dRuNk3nIrIsHmEn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thank you very much trip.
- EComni, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5It's not?
- TheMadCow, on 10/12/2007, -8/+8Why does it have to be in Spanish at all? It's the U.S. . If you're going to use the "global" card, then also include every other language that may be spoken in the U.S. .
- rmayo87, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1...that it does
- mehbored, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0huh?
- aoeui, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0On the contrary, here is the course listing for Latin 101 at Purdue this fall.
http://www.courses.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/relay.exe/query?qid=courseOfferingDetails&abbreviation=LATN&academicInitiative=puWestLafayetteTrdtn&session=2007Fal&courseNumber=101 - doctechnical, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Available as a Firefox extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/198/ - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb...
- raindogmx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The rest of the message is sort of spanglish, too. But well, at least they tried.
- bushawa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Yeah, I think it is funny that it is used as filler. Especially for fonts so that people concentrate more on the look of the font than what it says. Yet all the time I get people reading the whole damn paragraph and trying to figure out what it says!
- betasp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2WTF. Is Digg just a place to link to that damn site? That is THREE TIMES on three different article on the home page today. Marked as Spam!
- deansfurniture5, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Someone give synth7 the MacArthur Genius Grant, this guy's got something special!
- itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3What's amazing to me is that bout everyone I know online say 20 and under have no idea what Latin is. They didn't teach it in my high school nor my college (purdue) so maybe it isn't surprising. Its kinda sad.
- Talguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1what dumb asses they are
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