Re: "lorem ipsum", "brown fox" & "enter title here" PDF titles
Why Latin came to be used for the "greeking" process is just one of those
_really_ arcane language lore thingies. It's probably because early MS
fonts didn't include Greek letters. They were used for the hot type
placeholders precisely because there was no mistaking them for English text.
Lorem ipsum has been used for greeking since long before computers were invented. My speculation is that the term greeking comes from "it's all Greek to me" and is basically a bit of printers' humor.
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