[neilpanchal]

I wasn't aware that Lorem Ipsum was conceived with uniform distribution of word lengths in mind. I couldn't find any information about it on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

> The lorem ipsum text is typically a scrambled section of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical, improper Latin.

Could you please provide source? I am curious now.

Alternate argument is that my version represents real actual text from real books :-), but to be honest, it is a tongue-in-cheek attempt.

[saltyoutburst]

"The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English." via the 'Why do we use it?' section on https://www.lipsum.com/

[neilpanchal]

I just posted the word length distribution graph on Github repo. In fact, contrary to the GP’s claim, Quantum Lorem Ipsum contains a larger % of shorter words than vanilla Lorem Ipsum. Also, the distribution isn’t perfectly normal. I used 16 paragraphs from both and wrote a small Julia script to analyze the word length.

I think the assertion that designers want to have a perfect normal distribution of word lengths is arguable. I’d be curious to analyze large datasets of books to see what the actual distribution of word lengths is. Heck, this may be an opportunity to actually fix vanilla Lorem Ipsum and write a script that can generate paragraphs that simulate real world distribution of word lengths! Looks like I have a project ahead of me this upcoming weekend :-).