After
asking for more details, we found that the language in question was lorem ipsum,
not a language at all.
Typically
beginning “lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetueur,” it’s a pseudo-Latin
nonsense phrase mostly lifted from a treatise on ethics written by Cicero in 45
B.C. According to the Microsoft support website, the original phrase by Cicero
is “Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet,
consectetur, adipisci velit,” which translates as "There is no one who
loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it
is pain."
Lorem
ipsum, however, has had letters added and removed to the point where it’s no
longer proper, meaningful Latin. For example, according to http://generator.lorem-ipsum.info/,
a webpage for generating lorem ipsum and other text, sometimes the letters K,
W, and Z are added randomly, just to give an idea of what they would look like.
Because
it’s meaningless, lorem ipsum is often used as filler text in design, such as
in our patron’s newsletter example. It’s supposed to give an idea of what the
finished product will look like without distracting the eye.
