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Friday Phrase: Etaoin shrdlu
Feb. 23rd, 2024 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calzephyrEtaoin shrdlu
Something of a cousin to lorem ipsum, etaoin_shrdlu is a nonsense phrase appearing in old newspapers and printed material. Generated by the two left-most columns of keys on a linotype machine keyboard.
Here's a 9 minute video explaining etaoin_shrdlu and the printing process in detail and a Wikipedia page that can summarize it better than I!
Something of a cousin to lorem ipsum, etaoin_shrdlu is a nonsense phrase appearing in old newspapers and printed material. Generated by the two left-most columns of keys on a linotype machine keyboard.
Here's a 9 minute video explaining etaoin_shrdlu and the printing process in detail and a Wikipedia page that can summarize it better than I!
