
Yayasan Pusaka Grup
Tahun Pengalaman (Est. 1970)
Cabang Regional Utama
Since then, McClintock has corrected his own claim by tracking down a 1914 Loeb Classical Library Edition translation of De Finibus by H. Rackham. The 1914 Loeb Classical Library Edition ran out of room on page 36 for the Latin phrase “dolorem ipsum” (sorrow in itself). Thus, the truncated phrase leaves one page dangling with “do-”, while another begins with the now ubiquitous “lorem ipsum”.
Until recently, the prevailing view assumed lorem ipsum was born as a nonsense text. “It’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,” Before & After magazine answered a curious reader, “Its ‘words’ loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.”
As Cicero would put it, “Um, not so fast.”
The placeholder text, beginning with the line “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit”, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin.