{"id":106,"date":"2022-01-14T05:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T05:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-1\/?p=141"},"modified":"2022-01-14T10:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T10:07:40","slug":"richard-mcclintock-a-latin-scholar-from-hampden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/2022\/01\/14\/richard-mcclintock-a-latin-scholar-from-hampden\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until recently, the prevailing view assumed\u00a0lorem ipsum<\/em>\u00a0was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d\u00a0Before & After<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u00a0answered a curious reader, \u201cIts \u2018words\u2019 loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.\u201d<\/p>

As Cicero would put it, \u201cUm, not so fast.\u201d<\/p>

The placeholder text, beginning with the line \u201cLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit\u201d<\/em>, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin.<\/p>

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is\u00a0credited\u00a0with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of\u00a0lorem ipsum<\/em>, his interest was piqued by\u00a0consectetur<\/em>\u2014a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from\u00a0De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cOn the Extremes of Good and Evil\u201d), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero.<\/p>

In particular, the garbled words of\u00a0lorem ipsum<\/em>\u00a0bear an unmistakable resemblance to sections 1.10.32\u201333 of Cicero’s work, with the most notable passage excerpted below:<\/p>

Until recently, the prevailing view assumed lorem ipsum<\/em> was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d Before & After<\/em> magazine answered a curious reader, \u201cIts \u2018words\u2019 loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.\u201d<\/p>

As Cicero would put it, \u201cUm, not so fast.\u201d<\/p>

The placeholder text, beginning with the line \u201cLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit\u201d<\/em>, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin.<\/p>

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is credited with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of lorem ipsum<\/em>, his interest was piqued by consectetur<\/em>\u2014a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum<\/em> (\u201cOn the Extremes of Good and Evil\u201d), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero.<\/p>

In particular, the garbled words of\u00a0lorem ipsum<\/em>\u00a0bear an unmistakable resemblance to sections 1.10.32\u201333 of Cicero’s work, with the most notable passage excerpted below:<\/p>

Until recently, the prevailing view assumed lorem ipsum<\/em> was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d Before & After<\/em> magazine answered a curious reader, \u201cIts \u2018words\u2019 loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.\u201d<\/p>

As Cicero would put it, \u201cUm, not so fast.\u201d<\/p>

The placeholder text, beginning with the line \u201cLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit\u201d<\/em>, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin.<\/p>

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is credited with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of lorem ipsum<\/em>, his interest was piqued by consectetur<\/em>\u2014a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum<\/em> (\u201cOn the Extremes of Good and Evil\u201d), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero.<\/p>

In particular, the garbled words of lorem ipsum<\/em> bear an unmistakable resemblance to sections 1.10.32\u201333 of Cicero’s work, with the most notable passage excerpted below:<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Until recently, the prevailing view assumed\u00a0lorem ipsum\u00a0was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d\u00a0Before & After\u00a0magazine\u00a0answered a curious reader, \u201cIts \u2018words\u2019 loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.\u201d As Cicero would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}