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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 51 minutes ago

One letter shorter (28) and you've got "Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex!" I prefer that to the 27 letter "Quick nymph bugs vex fjord waltz."

And the only couple perfect pangrams listed are "Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx." or "Cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz" (which even given the obscure words seems like it's missing an article before quiz).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram#Short_pangrams

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm is my favorite word

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

It doesn't have the same flow.

You missed an S

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 14 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] DrSoap@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Not me. I can never remember it. Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow feels like a declaration a wizard would make with his dying breath. I don't think I'll forget it soon.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It's easier to remember?

Because you've seen it repeatedly over years and years of time

Meanwhile the quick brown fox has been stuck in my head for years after only hearing of it a couple of times at most.

Either you never had to take typing, never had to change your font, or just weren't very observant. I've seen that phrase hundreds of times over the decades. Hell, I remember having to type the stupid phrase repeatedly in typing class back in the day.

'Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow' is much cooler and more memorable, just from one read.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 15 points 13 hours ago

Leads to cooler art too

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

"Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz." ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 13 hours ago

The hungry purple dinosaur ate the kind, zingy fox, the jabbering crab, and the mad whale and started vending and quacking.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 62 points 1 day ago (2 children)

erm, it's "jumps" over the lazy dog, not "jumped".

That makes more sense as the phrase posted on the original image is missing an S

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 3 points 8 hours ago

To add some pedantry i also say "quick fox" & "lazy brown dog" as i associate foxes as being orange.

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 22 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I said that phrase and summoned a Gothic Demon

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

I tried this, Odin is throwing rocks at me now. If I try to kill him do I go to Valhalla or Hel?

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 40 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Hi, it's me, your Gothic Demon

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So just for posterity how many times do I have to say it before it works?

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I tried 666 times and still didnt work. Very sad day.

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 6 points 16 hours ago

🤣😏🤘🏾

[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

whisky doing some heavy lifting. As it does...

[–] gressen@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Zażółć gęślą jaźń" uses all the diacritics in Polish and was used to test code pages.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

“Yellow the goose self”?

I think my translator is hallucinating again

Edit: and if not, that’s a dope metalcore band name

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

How in touch are you with your gooseself?

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

You translator might be correct considering that in hungarian we have "Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép", meaning "Flood-proof mirror-drill-machine"

[–] gressen@lemmy.zip 5 points 20 hours ago

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.

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[–] duckythescientist@sh.itjust.works 101 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Jumps not jumped. You are missing an 's' otherwise. I'm amazed how common this mistake is 😁

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[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago

I used this to test my code

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago

Fair, though it's also used to show off fonts, and I'll use that second one from now on.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 67 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I use "grumpy wizards make a toxic brew for the jovial queen".

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

The "a" is overused. As is the "e".

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