Lorem Ipsum is <i>based</i> on that passage, but has been mangled significantly in the adaptation. &quot;Lorem&quot; is half of the word &quot;dolorem&quot;, for instance. So it can&#x27;t actually be translated in any real sense.<p>Instead, if you try translating that passage from Latin, Google Translate goes nuts. Since &quot;Lorem Ipsum&quot; is used as filler text in a bunch of web sites, it finds apparently parallel texts all over the place and ends up cobbling together a &quot;translation&quot; out of random phrases. IIRC, &quot;lorem ipsum&quot; alone used to translate to something like &quot;click here&quot;? (It&#x27;s passed through unchanged now.)