# What is all this weird pseudo Latin?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 17, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-all-this-weird-pseudo-latin/725461 "2015-07-17T22:01:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-all-this-weird-pseudo-latin/725461/21 "2015-07-20T04:14:48Z")

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Wikipedia article:

> **[Lorem ipsum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum)**
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> In publishing and graphic design, Lorem ipsum is a placeholder text commonly used to demonstrate the visual form of a document or a typeface without relying on meaningful content. Lorem ipsum may be used as a placeholder before final copy is available. It is also used to temporarily replace text in a process called greeking, which allows designers to consider the form of a webpage or publication, without the meaning of the text influencing the design.
> Lorem ipsum is typically a corrupted version...

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-all-this-weird-pseudo-latin/725461/22 "2015-07-20T04:28:22Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> That’s pretty cool. I never knew that. The lorem one doesn’t work for me, but “=rand()” gives me a bunch of “quick brown fox…” lines. Neat.

=lorum wasn’t working for me until I found out you had to have the “Replace words as you type” option turned on in AutoCorrect for it to work.

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-all-this-weird-pseudo-latin/725461/23 "2015-07-20T12:39:28Z")

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Inspired by _The Shining_, I used “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” repeated ad nauseam, as a place-holder for my doctoral dissertation text (so I could work out the formatting early in the writing process).

I made darned sure there weren’t any stray lines of this left over when I’d finished writing the thing!

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