Everything will be alright

After telling everyone that Lorem Ipsum is a text that comes with PageMaker that looks like Latin but doesn't make sense, I learned the following from Richard McClintock, editor-in-chief at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia:

Lorem Ipsum is Latin - slightly twisted - part of a passage from Cicero's “De finibus bonorum et malorum” 1.10.32 begins like this: “Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit...” (There is no one who puts themselves in heartbreak, who searches for it or relocates for it simply because it hurts.) “De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” was written in 45 BC, it is a theoretical moral treatise that was very popular during the Renaissance.

What I find remarkable about it is that this placeholder text has been used as an industry standard since the 15th century. Back then, a typesetting was taken, the letters mixed and a printing pobe of writing was made; it not only survived five centuries of typesetting, but also the phototypesetting and remained fundamentally unchanged, except for an occasional change with an ending such as “ing” or “y.” The irony of it all is that when you understand twisted Latin, it becomes as incomprehensible as Greek and the phrase “it sounds like Greek to me” and the English “greeking” have the same semantic origin.