Talk:Lorem ipsum

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[edit] Translations

are there any translations?

I Second that... does anybody have a translation? Benashbe 02:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Yep, I'll add it in tomorrow. :) // Pathoschild (_admin / ^talk) 02:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I completely forgot about this. Actually, no translation is possible; this is corrupted nonsense derived from Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum. —{admin} Pathoschild 03:09:42, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

w:Lorem_ipsum#English_translation quotes a 1914 translation, no? Sherurcij ^{Collaboration of the Week: Author:Stratemeyer Syndicate} 00:52, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

The 1914 translation is of the passage from De finibus bonorum et malorum. The lorem ipsum text is derived from this, but it is not an exact copy. The changes are not valid Latin and thus, as noted above, render the text to be nonsense.

—unsigned comment by JerryE (talk) 13:19, 24 May 2008.

[edit] Is this the original text?

Is this really the original text, not some randomly generated pseudo-latin? http://www.lipsum.com/ gives a different "standard Lorem Ipsum passage"