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by WorldMaker 2613 days ago
When used for typesetting the Latin was intentionally scrambled, so even someone familiar with Classic Latin should find it more gibberish than not. For instance the `lorem` itself was most likely a chopped part of a longer word (dolorem).

An interesting comparison of the "Modern" typesetter's lorem ipsum and the likely source text is in the Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum