What Does This Mean?

[Bob WilsonParticipant @bobwilson59101]

Whenever I click the image icon here on MB, the following always comes up:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas feugiat consequat diam. Maecenas metus. Vivamus diam purus, cursus a, commodo non, facilisis vitae, nulla. Aenean dictum lacinia tortor. Nunc iaculis, nibh non iaculis aliquam, orci felis euismod neque, sed ornare massa mauris sed velit. Nulla pretium mi et risus. Fusce mi pede, tempor id, cursus ac, ullamcorper nec, enim. Sed tortor. Curabitur molestie. Duis velit augue, condimentum at, ultrices a, luctus ut, orci. Donec pellentesque egestas eros. Integer cursus, augue in cursus faucibus, eros pede bibendum sem, in tempus tellus justo quis ligula. Etiam eget tortor. Vestibulum rutrum, est ut placerat elementum, lectus nisl aliquam velit, tempor aliquam eros nunc nonummy metus. In eros metus, gravida a, gravida sed, lobortis id, turpis. Ut ultrices, ipsum at venenatis fringilla, sem nulla lacinia tellus, eget aliquet turpis mauris non enim. Nam turpis. Suspendisse lacinia. Curabitur ac tortor ut ipsum egestas elementum. Nunc imperdiet gravida mauris.

It looks like Latin, but a Latin to English translation turns it into Double Dutch!

What on earth is it all about?

Bob

[Bob WilsonParticipant @bobwilson59101]

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

In publishing lorem ipsum is placeholder text commonly used to demonstrate the graphics elements of a document. The lorem ipsum text is typically a section of a Latin text by Cicero with words altered, added and removed that make it nonsensical in meaning and not proper Latin.

[Kimosubby ShipyardsParticipant @kimosubbyshipyards]

Bob,

I expect someone trying to be clever has typed in the english and then decided to post it as Latin via a computer translater. Then when we try and reverse the process in translation, we get the gobble de gook that starts off in english, but is actually meaningless.

Now why anyone gets the "Latin" in the first place – we'd better get Colin to ask the designers.

Merry Christmas, Kimosubby.

[Bob WilsonParticipant @bobwilson59101]

Thanks for replies. I have wondered what it was all about for some time, but only today got round to putting it in a translator.

Bob

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

sad thing is..the idiot who is the secretary of state for education Michael Gove aka Mr bean look alike wants it to be taught again as a primary subject in all schools………..the mind boggles!!!

[Bob WilsonParticipant @bobwilson59101]

It wouldn't have worked with me! They couldn't even get me to learn French. Latin would stand no chance! English was bad enough, but I had a head start with that as I could speak it to begin with!

Bob

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