Lorem Ipsum

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedians/podcasters Cody Johnston and Katy Stoll (‘Some More News’ YouTube channel, ‘Even More News’ podcast) for a look at why Lorem Ipsum is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:

• ‘Some More News’ on YouTube
• ‘Even More News’ podcast
• Some More News Patreon

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• Translating Lorem Ipsum (The London Review Of Books)
• What is Lorem Ipsum Filler Text? (Mental Floss)
• The History of Lorem Ipsum (Priceonomics.com)
• online upload of full text of ‘De Finibus Bonorum Et Malorum’ by Cicero, translated into English, as published in the Loeb Classical Library in 1931
• Hedonismbot (Futurama wikia)
• A Secret Code in Google Translate? (The Atlantic)
• Tweet from @Google, August 2014: “@TechCrunch @johnbiggs Don’t worry, Translate is safe. But when you try to translate nonsense, ouyay etgay onsensenay.”
• “What? I tried to get Latin canceled for five years! It’s a dead language, I always say.” — Max Fischer in Rushmore (1998)

The current Wikipedia consensus on a standard block of “lorem ipsum”:

Direct translation of the garbled “lorem ipsum” words, translated by Cambridge University classics postgraduate student Jaspreet Singh Boparai:

Some of the strange Google Translate results for various elements of “lorem ipsum”, as documented by Brian Krebs, August 2014: