The hungry purple dinosaur ate the kind, zingy fox, the jabbering crab, and the mad whale and started vending and quacking.
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It's easier to remember?
I mean, I'm not going to discount the cool factor of the alternative, but I already forget what it is. Meanwhile the quick brown fox has been stuck in my head for years after only hearing of it a couple of times at most.
Leads to cooler art too
"Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz."
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I said that phrase and summoned a Gothic Demon
Hi, it's me, your Gothic Demon
So just for posterity how many times do I have to say it before it works?
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erm, it's "jumps" over the lazy dog, not "jumped".
"Zażółć gęślą jaźń" uses all the diacritics in Polish and was used to test code pages.
“Yellow the goose self”?
I think my translator is hallucinating again
Edit: and if not, that’s a dope metalcore band name
I don't think the intention of that sentence was anything else than testing the letters and it wasn't really supposed to have any serious meaning.
You translator might be correct considering that in hungarian we have "Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép", meaning "Flood-proof mirror-drill-machine"
ů̶͎̱̍̉̄͆ ̸̨̎̃̈́͐́͗̍̊͗̓͛́̕ẅ̸̰̯̗͔́͘0̴̡̯̹̉́̽̊t̸̗͓͓͇̭͖̩̭̪̲͓̖͕̳͈́̌͐͌̅̉́̉́̀͊̑͘͝ ̸̡̛͍͋͊̃̎͌͛̐̃̋͑̚͘̚͝m̵̧̧͚̘̻̰̗̜̺͔͐̍̇̏̽̀͘ͅ8̶͈̣̻̰͎̺̺͎̓͜
In France, we have "Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume" ("Bring that old whiskey to the blond smoking judge") and I find it really... french since we manage to put alcohol and tobacco in an alexandrine just to make a pangram.
It's an imperfect one as it's missing all the accented characters. Given the state of some fonts, you really want to test those, especially upper case ones.
whisky doing some heavy lifting. As it does...
this whole exercise is really meant to exist in schools. like, schools for young kids.
we're adults arguing about which nursery rhyme is cooler while forgetting that this isn't for us. it needs to be easily understood by children. that's why we use one with only short easy words.
even the sentence structure of the second one is complicated and hard for a child to remember.
I used this to test my code
i thought it was made to test typewriters.
looked it up,
it was made to help teachers teach students how to type on keyboards. my bad
Fair, though it's also used to show off fonts, and I'll use that second one from now on.
Jumps not jumped. You are missing an 's' otherwise. I'm amazed how common this mistake is 😁
I've seen "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back" used to get the s in there.
Inefficient.
contains all the 27 letters of the english alphabet: a-z and '
I use "grumpy wizards make a toxic brew for the jovial queen".
The "a" is overused. As is the "e".
I don't like this one
I think I prefer "wizard makes" instead of "wizards make"
Well, jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. So there.
great
Sphinx coolness is not enough face to face with two cute animals in one sentence.
In Sweden we use this weird old sentence:
"Flygande bäckasiner söka hwila på mjuka tuvor",
It doesn't even contian all letters, so you have to add "QXZ" to the end to complete the test....
damn, the sentence had one job
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This post genuinely inspired me a year ago and now I use that sentence instead of the lazy dog one
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Pangrams! My goto has been How quickly daft jumping zebras vex! for a little while, it's just so silly.
Because you don't really use/see sphinx or quartz much in daily life. Much better to use a sentence that's easier to write
I've never seen a fox in daily life either. Might as well be the same as a sphinx if that's the bar.
You're missing out. Foxes are great.
See them as a writen word.
There are no "hard" words in the fox sentence. While some people might struggle with writing sphinx or quartz.
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