Google Translate says "Lorem Ipsum Dolor" is "Hello World"

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Well "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit."

translates into. "Hello world! Is here to cancel meals."

Really? Downvotes for that? That's actually what it says!

I guess developers use "Lorem Ipsum" along with "Hello World!" so much that it breaks Translate's statistical translation engine.

Wikipedia says the english translation of the first sentence is "Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure."

I can only suppose that you are correct about Google Translate. Wikipedia's translation is strange, however, as "lorem" is not a word in latin. The "Lorem ipsum" text is derived from a work of Cicero written in 45BC, in which the following is present:

Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit...

As seen here, the placeholder text is wrought with strange omissions from the original.

Translated by Google as...

> Nor again is there anyone who loves pain itself, because it is pain, the system, so blinded by desire. Hello World!

Google correctly translates "Hello world" from English to Latin as "salve mundi". The Latin-English part is clearly an Easter egg. Nice.

Don’t be so sure it’s an easter egg. After all, as other commenters note, the phrase is used as placeholder text (perhaps like, or alongside, “Hello World”.)

I would like to see confirmation one way or the other from Google.

An easter egg, it seems.

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