Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com, Greeked text so garbled that even Cicero would roll in his grave:
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Mentioned in this post:
- Double-double is Canadian for “coffee with two creams and two sugars.”
- few mistakes actually cause a reprint
- other examples of lorem ipsum that made it into advertising (HT Dick Margulis)
- “lorem ipsum” is the first two words of classic placeholder text, called “Greeked”
- technology version of “Greeked” text—often rendered as ###
- the lorem ipsum text is based on one of Cicero’s texts
- easter eggs are hidden messages/ symbols in media
Thanks to Steph Cilia VanderMeulen for brining the story to my attention, and to Tim Hortons for providing the story.
