In the 1990s, Latin professor Richard McClintock discovered that the word 'consectetur' in the commonly used 'Lorem Ipsum' dummy text is not random gibberish but a valid Latin term. By tracing this word through classical literature, he discovered it originated from Cicero's 45 BCE manuscript 'De finibus bonorum et malorum' (On the ends of good and evil), revealing that this text generator accidentally preserved fragments of an ancient Roman philosophical document.
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But, by needing a deliberate way to blind our own reading instincts, >> [music] >> designers accidentally preserved the fragmented remains of an ancient document. In the 1990s, [music] a Latin professor named Richard McClintock noticed a glaring anomaly inside the dummy text. One specific [music] word in the sequence, "consectetur", isn't gibberish. It is a completely valid Latin term. McClintock used that single word as a thread to pull. He started searching through surviving classical Latin literature, hunting for a passage that contained a perfect match for that specific sequence.
>> [music] >> He traced it all the way back to a manuscript written in 45 BCE, "De finibus bonorum et malorum", >> [music] >> which translates to "On the ends of good and evil". The author was the Roman statesman [music] and philosopher Cicero.
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