- Quoted from www.lipsum.com.

Basically, Lorem Ipsum is a sort of gibberish used for (as far as I've seen) fill up empty spaces in website examples. A smple of this would be:



That's just random generated language. It doesn't translate to anything.

I used to see that stuff, and just think it was Greek or something, thinking, "Why on Earth are these people using Greek in their examples?"

Actually, it does translate to something. It's in Latin. It's not the complete version of the original but bits and pieces of it, which makes it a bit hard to translate. Lorem Ipsum.

Thanks for the wikipedia link... When I was in college, a teacher briefly explained about 'Lorem Ipsum', and I knew the general idea behind it, but it was nice to read something a little more substantial about it. Plus, it's also good to know about how some have been altered to include some other things in the text. I didn't realize that that had been done. Now I'll be sure to search for a 'clean' version of the text if at all possible before using it in any designs, because I don't want something really unexpected to pop up at the most inopportune time lol

I can see myself giving a presentation with some Lorem Ipsum text, and one of the people I'm presenting to starts to snicker... I wouldn't know why until afterwards when he pulls me to the side to tell me what was actually written in there. I'd be so embarrassed lol...