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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

El veloz murciélago hindú comía feliz cardillo y kiwi. La cigüeña tocaba el saxofón detrás del palenque de paja.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Fine. Using this from now on.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" has a certain rhythm to it. The first half is about the fox and it's all quick, monosyllabic words, then in the second half it's about the dog and every other word is two syllables. ...or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't the first sentence in this post specifically not include "s"? So, not all letters are included?

Wikipedia gives the conventional pangram: "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Good catch. Dogs. Or jumps.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No amount of coolness can ever beat the cute animals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

maybe the sphinx is half cute half animal

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As I've said before. Quick brown fox is chill and comforting, like a pleasant autumn day at the park or perhaps a forest. Sphinx of black quartz is objectively a million times nerd shit and uncool. It tries too hard to be cool. Like a mom or dad trying to use the new slang that the kids have been throwing around. And because they don't know how to use it, the slang is made to be out of place, uncool. Maybe if it was in the midst of some great, terrible, perilous story of bravery and heroics - a choice line said when it was most needed - it would be amongst good company. But it's not. It's just a sentence used to display the letters of the alphabet. So diluted and stale. Through this constant repetition, this constant exposure, it has lost potency. Venom in blood so carefuly exposed a hundred fold as to experience no symptom. But Quick Brown fox suffers no ill side effect, because it was bred for this purpose. It knows what it has been made to do and does it with pleasure.

Thanks for reading.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

It's easy to remember. I can't forget about the quick brown fox. However, I've already forgotten the alternative. Something black? Idk

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"The slow black dog bows before the regal fox" will forever be in my head thanks to that one episode of Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams.

(Yes, it's missing the Z. That's part of the point.)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's also missing I, J, M, N, P, Q, U, V, and Y.

That's nearly half the alphabet. As approximate pangrams go, this one failed harder than any I've seen before.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Mild spoilers, but in the show, >!it isn't supposed to be a pangram, but a response to one, sort of like an anti-pangram. f you're trying to focus on the typical 'quick brown fox' pangram, it breaks your concentration. It sounds close, but the more you think about it, the worse it gets and the less you're able to focus on the real one.!<

But my point is that it still confuses me and pops up in my head when I'm trying to think about the real one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog' does not contain the letter S.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago

It's jumps.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Time for a sentence that really uses all letters. At least all the letters from latin scripts. So give me some Þ and some ß.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Also some č æ ø đ ē ç œ

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

The second sentence is harder

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Came here for this one! 👊⚡️👨🏻‍❤️‍👨🏻🏋️❤️🚫👯‍♀️

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