Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 27

= December 27 =

Gibberish Latin
How would you call those placeholder texts like. They are found more frequently on the web, and hence are presumably the output of some software, but of which one? Pseudo-Latin, dog Latin or gibberish Latin do not seem to be appropiate, for the texts serve as placeholders, like Lorem ipsum, but it is definitely not Lorem ipsum. --Pp.paul.4 (talk) 19:53, 27 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Filler texts or placeholder texts or dummy texts. --Theurgist (talk) 23:23, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Or, from the references at lorem ipsum, loremgenerator.io uses the phrase "generated lorem ipsum". I'm sure there are many generators to choose from. Card Zero  (talk) 23:58, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
 * The same source has "a tool to generate Lorem Ipsum placeholder text" and "it allows you to really customize your Lorem Ipsum text". So, as in our article Lorem ipsum, it uses the term more generally for placeholder text meant to demonstrate appearance abstracted from content. --Lambiam 11:40, 28 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Many sources state that it was created in the 1500s by an unknown printer who scrambled a passage of type to make a book specimen. Popularized in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets, it made the leap into digital publishing in the 1980s when Aldus Corporation created a variation for use in PageMaker and for the Apple Macintosh. Alansplodge (talk) 23:25, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
 * The quoted source dates from July 2015. The same information was present in our article on 6 December 2011, except for the (unsourced and probably false) information promulgated by Trump many sources that this piece of garbled Latin originated in the 16th century. --Lambiam 22:27, 29 December 2021 (UTC)