Pangrams! My goto has been
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It doesn’t have the same flow.
“Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.”
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)This post genuinely inspired me a year ago and now I use that sentence instead of the lazy dog one
Doesn’t it miss an f?
“of”
Facepalming hard…. Thanks…
Don’t be too hard on yourself. I’ve seen this post come up on Reddit many times over the years, and every time the comments are full of people who think various letters are missing.
You missed an S
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.
Sphinx coolness is not enough face to face with two cute animals in one sentence.
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.
🤣😏🤘🏾
I tried this, Odin is throwing rocks at me now. If I try to kill him do I go to Valhalla or Hel?
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.
i think it’s more about being words that kids will know.
It’s true, your experience is entirely representative of everyone else.
I never claimed it was. But I’d bet there are tens of millions of people that have never seen a fox in real life, not even in regular daily life. Even if they live in a region where foxes do live, daily urban life isn’t exactly conducive them.
Daily urban life is very conducive to them, they scavenge bins around my area all the time.
I was about to say this! I’ve seen more foxes around the centre of Manchester and Sheffield than I have around the farms where I live.
We live in the suburbs (UK), and our place is lousy with foxes - might be the most common animal you see. On the plus side, the cubs are incredibly cute; but on the downside, “fox romance” is not what you want to be listening to at three in the morning, and our cats go crazy chasing them out of our garden. Could do without them getting into a scrap and causing me some crazy vet’s bills.
Wait, have you seen a sphinx? That’s cool!
In all truth, I’ve probably seen more sphinxes than foxes. There are literally hundreds of them in Egypt, although they are quite small compared to the one near the pyramids in Giza. They also find their way into museums around the world.
I’ve only seen one or two foxes, in the wild. A few more in zoos, I suppose.
You’re missing out. Foxes are great.
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I use “grumpy wizards make a toxic brew for the jovial queen”.
I think I prefer “wizard makes” instead of “wizards make”
Or pluralize the brews
The “a” is overused. As is the “e”.
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.
I took typing in highschool. We did exercises about the letters and their placement in a QWERTY layout. “Quick ask Zoe, why stop X-rays, even dogs can’t…” Fucking lodged in my brain still, even over two decades later.
That’s right. I’ve been using computers since the early 90’s. I’m old. I predate this phrase being popular. It still only took a couple of times seeing it, for it to be permanently lodged in my brain, just like asking Zoe quickly.
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.
qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm is my favorite word
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Leads to cooler art too
