• nautevenkidding@feddit.org
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    Edit: This seems to be wrong, see the thread for context.


    If by chunks you mean individual letters of the latin alphabet.

    Otherwise no, lorem ipsum is pseudo-latin, meant to emulate letter frequency and word length of latin, but not actual latin words.

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      What? Yes it does. “Ipsum” is a latin word, it means “itself”. It’s a fragment of “[Do]lorem ipsum, dolor sit amet”, “pain itself, for being pain”. It’s from, IIRC, Cicero.

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        Huh, I guess you’re right. At least regarding the first paragraph(s), which I would argue is the relevant part.