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August 15th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Haha, I’ve had to explain this one a few times. I got a frantic call one evening after sending a client a link to a test URL, they were hyperventilating because “it’s all foreign”.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:45 am
I will never get tired of people doing a double-take whenever I present something with Lorem Ipsum.
And I’ve been in meetings where designers would bet on who would find the first sex-related word first. Nothing beats hearing *insert dirty word* screamed in joy during an inter-agency phone conference.
August 18th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Indeed, classic.
Instead of standard placeholder text, why not use something that’ll look normal, but is gibberish nonetheless, like Jabberwocky or the Kyoto Treaty?
August 18th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
It just escapes me that regardless of how many times the presenter can say “this is placeholder text” and yet people are still hung up on it. I once tried, just as an experiment, filling the space with actual English text, and the client was so focused on what it said that it ended up a horrible distraction to them. From then on, it’s gibberish for me.
Harry, that’s awful. It did make me laugh though. Nice to know others are dealing with this too.
Aleria, I’ve never thought to go through it and actually look for words, but now that you mention it I may have to check it out. Or, just for fun, add some words in on purpose and see if anyone finds them.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Joe, the whole point of it though is that it is nonsense. Because, as you found, real English is a distraction, as is text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here I think you get the idea lol.
It’s annoying that people find the concept so abstract though.