Don’t bother typing \u201clorem ipsum\u201d into Google translate. If you already tried, you may have gotten\u00a0anything from “NATO” to “China”, depending on how you capitalized the letters. The bizarre translation was fodder for conspiracy theories, but Google has since updated its \u201clorem ipsum\u201d translation to, boringly enough, \u201clorem ipsum\u201d.<\/p>
One brave soul did take a stab at translating the almost-not-quite-Latin. According to\u00a0The Guardian, Jaspreet Singh Boparai undertook the challenge with the goal of making the text \u201cprecisely as incoherent in English as it is in Latin – and to make it incoherent in the same way\u201d. As a result, \u201cthe Greek ‘eu’ in Latin became the French ‘bien’ […] and the ‘-ing’ ending in ‘lorem ipsum’ seemed best rendered by an ‘-iendum’ in English.\u201d<\/p>
Here is the classic lorem ipsum passage followed by Boparai’s odd, yet mesmerizing version Don’t bother typing \u201clorem ipsum\u201d into Google translate. If you already tried, you may have gotten\u00a0anything from “NATO” to “China”, depending on how you capitalized the letters. The bizarre translation was fodder for conspiracy theories, but Google has since updated its \u201clorem ipsum\u201d translation to, boringly enough, \u201clorem ipsum\u201d.<\/p>
One brave soul did take a stab at translating the almost-not-quite-Latin. According to\u00a0The Guardian, Jaspreet Singh Boparai undertook the challenge with the goal of making the text \u201cprecisely as incoherent in English as it is in Latin – and to make it incoherent in the same way\u201d. As a result, \u201cthe Greek ‘eu’ in Latin became the French ‘bien’ […] and the ‘-ing’ ending in ‘lorem ipsum’ seemed best rendered by an ‘-iendum’ in English.\u201d<\/p>
Here is the classic lorem ipsum passage followed by Boparai’s odd, yet mesmerizing version:<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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