Rasklemmy·AsklemmybyRacerX What's your favorite sentence that uses every letter of the English language?Tired of the brown fox.View original on lemmy.world8Comments9
GGreyShuck beehaw.org2Hide 2 repliesSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. You can't get a lot cooler than that.13
GGreyShuck replybeehaw.orgA) I have never touched tumblr. B) I first heard it around 30 years back, so a little before tumblr.1
wwithersailor aussie.zone1Hide 1 replyThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This is undoubtedly the best known pangram. The five boxing wizards jump quickly. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes. More than you ever wanted to know about pangram generation: https://medium.com/@FallingForFallacies/all-perfect-pangrams-of-english-8c8d0f621bee7
Ulu-Mulu-no-die replylemmy.world The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Ooohhh that's why it's used for testing fonts? TIL !2
manned_meatball lemmy.mlI never bothered to search other sentences, but after reading them I still prefer the brown fox. There's something about using simple words that makes it more satisfying than the others.3
ffubo lemmy.worldMr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx. (A Scottish professor who starred on game shows was unsuccessful at hunting Arctic cats.) Fwd: Blackthorn PJs vex quiz gym. (I've forwarded you this email about trivia-obsessed weightlifters confused by sloe pajamas.)2
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
You can't get a lot cooler than that.
Did you get this from Tumblr
A) I have never touched tumblr.
B) I first heard it around 30 years back, so a little before tumblr.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This is undoubtedly the best known pangram.
The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.
More than you ever wanted to know about pangram generation: https://medium.com/@FallingForFallacies/all-perfect-pangrams-of-english-8c8d0f621bee
Ooohhh that's why it's used for testing fonts? TIL !
I never bothered to search other sentences, but after reading them I still prefer the brown fox. There's something about using simple words that makes it more satisfying than the others.
Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx.
(A Scottish professor who starred on game shows was unsuccessful at hunting Arctic cats.)
Fwd: Blackthorn PJs vex quiz gym.
(I've forwarded you this email about trivia-obsessed weightlifters confused by sloe pajamas.)
How razorback-jumping frogs can level six piqued gymnasts!