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[–] [email protected] 100 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. (29 letters)

Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex. (28 letters)

A perfect pangram contains every letter of the alphabet only once and can be considered an anagram of the alphabet. The only perfect pangrams of the English alphabet that are known use abbreviations or other non-dictionary words, such as "Mr Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx", or use words so obscure that the phrase is hard to understand, such as "Cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz", in which cwm is a loan word from the Welsh language meaning an amphitheatre-like glaciated depression, vext is an uncommon way to spell vexed, and quiz is used in an archaic sense to mean a puzzling or eccentric person. It means that symbols in the bowl-like depression on the edge of a long steep sea inlet confused an eccentric person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram?useskin=vector

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

does coomb come from cwm?

[–] JackRiddle 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Waltz, bad nymph is great, I will use that in the future

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Seems like an aggressive pickup line

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Because it's simpler, and has simple words, easy for kids to learn and remember.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

Notably this post gets it wrong too, missing the S. It's "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

As I've said before. Quick brown fox is chill and comforting, like a pleasant autumn day at the park or perhaps a forest. Sphinx of black quartz is objectively a million times nerd shit and uncool. It tries too hard to be cool. Like a mom or dad trying to use the new slang that the kids have been throwing around. And because they don't know how to use it, the slang is made to be out of place, uncool. Maybe if it was in the midst of some great, terrible, perilous story of bravery and heroics - a choice line said when it was most needed - it would be amongst good company. But it's not. It's just a sentence used to display the letters of the alphabet. So diluted and stale. Through this constant repetition, this constant exposure, it has lost potency. Venom in blood so carefuly exposed a hundred fold as to experience no symptom. But Quick Brown fox suffers no ill side effect, because it was bred for this purpose. It knows what it has been made to do and does it with pleasure.

Thanks for reading.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (1 children)

boxers had zap of gay jock love, quit women

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Came here for this one! 👊⚡️👨🏻‍❤️‍👨🏻🏋️❤️🚫👯‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

To answer honestly, it's because the first sentence only uses common and easy to spell words.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Doesn't the first sentence in this post specifically not include "s"? So, not all letters are included?

Wikipedia gives the conventional pangram: "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Good catch. Dogs. Or jumps.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The sphinx, as a type of chimera, represents a bridge between life and death (or for the ancients, this life and the afterlife). It will judge you and all your vows whether you like it or not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

First, thank you. Second, that's awesome. Third, do you need a hug, buddy?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Haha. Vindication for my art history minor!

And sure, hugs are always good! In fact we should all be a lot nicer to one other. After all, none among us is ultimately getting out of this mess alive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

To Each His Chimera

Beneath a broad grey sky, upon a vast and dusty plain devoid of grass, and where not even a nettle or a thistle was to be seen, I met several men who walked bowed down to the ground.

Each one carried upon his back an enormous Chimera as heavy as a sack of flour or coal, or as the equipment of a Roman foot-soldier.

But the monstrous beast was not a dead weight, rather she enveloped and oppressed the men with her powerful and elastic muscles, and clawed with her two vast talons at the breast of her mount. Her fabulous head reposed upon the brow of the man like one of those horrible casques by which ancient warriors hoped to add to the terrors of the enemy.

I questioned one of the men, asking him why they went so. He replied that he knew nothing, neither he nor the others, but that evidently they went somewhere, since they were urged on by an unconquerable desire to walk.

Very curiously, none of the wayfarers seemed to be irritated by the ferocious beast hanging at his neck and cleaving to his back: one had said that he considered it as a part of himself. These grave and weary faces bore witness to no despair. Beneath the splenetic cupola of the heavens, their feet trudging through the dust of an earth as desolate as the sky, they journeyed onwards with the resigned faces of men condemned to hope for ever. So the train passed me and faded into the atmosphere of the horizon at the place where the planet unveils herself to the curiosity of the human eye.

During several moments I obstinately endeavoured to comprehend this mystery; but irresistible Indifference soon threw herself upon me, nor was I more heavily dejected thereby than they by their crushing Chimeras.

-Baudelaire

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No amount of coolness can ever beat the cute animals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

maybe the sphinx is half cute half animal

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's missing h and t, so that'll have to be hot liquor jugs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I better stick with quick brown fox

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Too many liquor jugs? 😁

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Such sloppy sentence engineering. Sus.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Simplicity trumped form when such things were drawn up

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" has a certain rhythm to it. The first half is about the fox and it's all quick, monosyllabic words, then in the second half it's about the dog and every other word is two syllables. ...or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

The second sentence is harder

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"The slow black dog bows before the regal fox" will forever be in my head thanks to that one episode of Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams.

(Yes, it's missing the Z. That's part of the point.)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's also missing I, J, M, N, P, Q, U, V, and Y.

That's nearly half the alphabet. As approximate pangrams go, this one failed harder than any I've seen before.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Mild spoilers, but in the show, >!it isn't supposed to be a pangram, but a response to one, sort of like an anti-pangram. f you're trying to focus on the typical 'quick brown fox' pangram, it breaks your concentration. It sounds close, but the more you think about it, the worse it gets and the less you're able to focus on the real one.!<

But my point is that it still confuses me and pops up in my head when I'm trying to think about the real one.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

also that first sentence does not have an 'S' in it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Yeah, “jumped” is supposed to be “jumps”

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Time for a sentence that really uses all letters. At least all the letters from latin scripts. So give me some Þ and some ß.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Also some č æ ø đ ē ç œ

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

It's easy to remember. I can't forget about the quick brown fox. However, I've already forgotten the alternative. Something black? Idk

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Jovial skippers quiz frowning ex-beef wags

Is even better

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think you're missing a couple letters there bud.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks Bing AI for making me look like a dickhead :-(

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hope you learned your lesson. LLMs are neat but they're not intelligent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I wish everyone would have an experience like this with LMMs. I know someone who uses GPT for literally everything they write. Letters, long texts, internet posts, etc. You can really tell, it’s like talking to a blog post.

[–] Tramdan 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog' does not contain the letter S.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago

It's jumps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I sometimes see it used on some font websites

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Fine. Using this from now on.

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