Can anybody translate a crazy latin rant for me?
I downloaded a powerpoint template online from microsoft office, and there are sketchy looking paragraphs in latin written in the text boxes. I'm super curious now. I tried google translate, but it only got a few words. Can somebody translate these for me please? Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipisc ing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tati on ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accu msan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praese nt lupta tum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi Haha thanks. That's not as interesting as I had hoped.
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- It's a placeholder text used in lay-out to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation, such as font and typography. It's part Latin, part pseudo-Latin. See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
- There are plenty of references to this text on google, just searching for the first 5 words brings up a website which can generate lines of the text for use as filler content whilst web designing. Read to the bottom of the page for some translations, of which I like the following one best - "On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains."
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