Lorem Ipsum

Publishers use filler text to get a sense of how words will look when laid out on a page. In this text, Paul urges us to be careful about our words. We should take a look at how they appear on the pages of our life.

"I first met Lorem Ipsum," said an employee for a textbook company, "when I went to work for a publishing company. In fact, I saw Lorem almost every day. But despite spending so much time together, I never got to know Lorem well because he never had anything to say."

Hearing that, some of you may be picturing our acquaintance working beside a tight-lipped colleague, and you might be wondering how someone could go to work day after day without ever saying anything at all and still retain the job. But, in fact, it was Ipsum's very absence of speech that made Ipsum so useful in that publishing company, especially in the page-design department.

Okay, maybe you're starting to figure out that Lorem Ipsum isn't a person at all. It's the name for dummy text used in the printing and publishing industry as a placeholder on a page where it is later replaced with actual written content. Lorem Ipsum is called that because those are the first two pretend words in the industry's standard placeholder...