Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish - Consumerist Comments

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

ShlomoPerets — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:57:04 EDT

"Lorem ipsum" also shows up in document titles in web searches -- see http://www.microtype.com/Hmmms.html#0701 for examples.

ShlomoPerets

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

RevRagnarok — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:46:17 EDT

More about it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

RevRagnarok

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

hop — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:16:51 EDT

that's easy for you to say.................

hop

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

Chaluapman — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:01:08 EDT

As a tech writer--

Nullam convallis turpis quis lacus. Morbi tempus mauris sit amet leo. Curabitur cursus leo et ipsum. Sed mattis. Ut interdum arcu nec neque dictum fringilla. Etiam bibendum quam vitae sem. In eget massa et nibh lacinia sollicitudin. Morbi justo nibh, sodales sed, accumsan et, scelerisque sit amet, est. Ut sit amet justo. Nam eu tortor sed massa facilisis ullamcorper.

Bwahahahahahahaha

Chaluapman

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

dmargulis — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:39:55 EDT

That's a classic. By which I mean it's a classic error that any pro can relate to. It's always the headline or the big, bold title that everyone forgets to proofread. That's why you see "penis" instead of "pen is," "pubic" instead of "public," etc. in the strangest places. "Lorem ipsum" errors show up in books, newspapers, and magazines regularly.

See http://www.lipsum.com/ for more on the history, plus the full text.

dmargulis

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

Uurp — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:56:21 EDT

I always thought "Lorem" meant "FastAttach" in Spanish.

Uurp

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

Leathersoup — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:26:41 EDT

Is it possible that the only put "Lorem Ipsum" there because they didn't have the spanish name for the item handy when they started on the item and forgot to finish getting the text prior to sending it out for printing?
It is a pretty funny mistake though. :)

Leathersoup

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

sshhaammss — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:56:45 EDT

we are so dumb its retarded

sshhaammss

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

blindInTexas — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:31:55 EDT

owned

blindInTexas

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

homerjay- Smiling politely — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:57:38 EDT

This appears to be a product that home depot sells making it the manufacturers problem and not Home Depot's. Put blame where blame is due.

homerjay- Smiling politely

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

ZonzoMaster — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:03:03 EDT

LOL... shame on you home depot (or your products actually)

ZonzoMaster

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

nequam — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:47:47 EDT

Looks like Andrew Dan-Jumbo has his work cut out for him. I think his name might be lorem ipsum.

nequam

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

reginae — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:37:34 EDT

Looks like someone tried to used Microsoft Publisher. =P

As someone who took Latin in high school, and whose parents speak Spanish, I'm falling off my chair laughing.

reginae

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

Asvetic — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:53:53 EDT

Interesting, I never knew the history of Lorem Ipsum. I always assumed it was a made up gibberish to use as filler, I didn't actually think it had roots.

Asvetic

Home Depot Thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' Is Spanish

royal72 — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:48:39 EDT

as a person in the graphic arts field, that's hysterical!

royal72