Far away, beyond the mountains of words, far from the lands of vowels and consonants, live the dummy texts. They dwell in seclusion in Letterville, on the coast of Semantics, a vast ocean of language. A small stream called Duden flows through their town, supplying them with the necessary grammatical essentials. It is a paradisiacal land where fried sentence fragments fly into one’s mouth. Not even the almighty punctuation rules over the dummy text—a truly unorthographic life. One day, however, a small line of dummy text, whose name was Lorem Ipsum, decided to venture out into the vast realm of grammar. The great Oxmox advised her against it, as it was teeming with evil commas, wild question marks, and devious semicolons, but the little dummy text would not be dissuaded.

Eines Tages aber beschloß eine kleine Zeile Blindtext, ihr Name war Lorem Ipsum, hinaus zu gehen in die weite Grammatik.