I see many layouts with boring and stupid dummy text of the kind Indesign generates automatically. I happen to dislike pseudo-latin copy – it is misleading and useless.
There are alternatives.

Michaels Sousa’s https://adhesiontext
generates copy in several languages, while MacLorem doesn’t just generate dummy copy in different languages, but also lets you enter parameters like the length of paragraphs.

Justanotherfoundry

by Tim Ahrens adds options like multi, neutral und abstract. That leads to wonderful copy in phantasy languages. You can even list character and character-pair frequencies. Just two examples:

languages: neutral abstract; characters: all characters
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languages: abstract de; characters: all characters
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Adhesiontext generates dummy text from the copy you enter into a window. This is particularly useful when you’re designing a new typeface and need to look at text before you have more than a handful of characters ready. I tried it with that old favourite Hamburgefonstiv, with German selected:

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… etcetera. The dictionaries for each of the languages make the words look very genuine that it generates from just so few characters. Add a comma or a full point and perhaps another capital letter or two and it looks as if you’ve already designed a whole typeface.