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I am font hunting again
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qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm is my favorite word
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).
Leads to cooler art too
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.
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.
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.
"Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz."
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erm, it's "jumps" over the lazy dog, not "jumped".
To add some pedantry i also say "quick fox" & "lazy brown dog" as i associate foxes as being orange.
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?
I tried 666 times and still didnt work. Very sad day.
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I tried this, Odin is throwing rocks at me now. If I try to kill him do I go to Valhalla or Hel?
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.
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.
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"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
How in touch are you with your gooseself?
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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I use "grumpy wizards make a toxic brew for the jovial queen".
The "a" is overused. As is the "e".
I think I prefer "wizard makes" instead of "wizards make"
Or pluralize the brews
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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 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.
I used this to test my code
The hungry purple dinosaur ate the kind, zingy fox, the jabbering crab, and the mad whale and started vending and quacking.
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.
Sphinx coolness is not enough face to face with two cute animals in one sentence.
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.
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Well, jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. So there.
And they’re like, it’s better than your’s
My sphinx of black quartz brings all the jackdaws to the yard
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