• @APassenger
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    jumps over the lazy dog.

    Otherwise there’s no “s.”

    It tells a short story that’s visual and full of words people know how to spell.

      • @APassenger
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        91 year ago

        Mobile phone at 4 Am. Missed the typo. Fixed now.

        • @Land_Strider
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          91 year ago

          As a non-native yet quite fluent speaker of English, I was wondering where the letter s was supposed to be in the example above. Thanks for pointing out the very obvious thing anyway, brains can fart at times.

          • @APassenger
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            81 year ago

            The full sentence is, “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

            Intent is to use every letter of the English alphabet. Thing is, I’ve heard “jumped” for decades now which ironically leads to s being skipped. I say ironically because it’s one of the most commonly used letters.

            • @wildcardology
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              21 year ago

              Huh, I don’t know where I got it from but I always typed it as this: “the quick little brown fox jumps over the back of the lazy dog” tried googling it just now and all I got was the shorter one.

    • Bob
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      I suppose people aren’t that used to telling stories in the present tense.

  • Justin
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    581 year ago

    Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

    • @Zehzin
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      Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz. This one gets bonus points for not repeating any letters. Also bonus points cause it starts with “cwm fjord” which is objectively funny.

      (Meaning: A weird person was annoyed by symbols on the opening of a sea valley’s walls)

      • Flying SquidOPM
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        I thought cwm meant hill?

        Edit: Apparently it means valley. Oops.

        • Tlaloc_Temporal
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          11 year ago

          Not enough double consonants, and fjord makes me think Scandinavian. Probably Swedish, too many vowels for Finnish.

  • @[email protected]
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    Two of those words are difficult to spell, a third is quite often misspelled, and the phrase is not as easy to remember.

    • @SpruceBringsteen
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      411 year ago

      Someone hasn’t been doing their occult exercises before they go to sleep

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        41 year ago

        I always just do them extra thoroughly the night before my yearly checkup at the occultist.

    • @edwardbear
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      01 year ago

      There’s also no “f” in that phrase. The whole point is to showcase a font.

  • @Caboose12000
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    • Fix problem quickly with galvanized jets
    • Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes
    • sebinspace
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      131 year ago

      Discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca, es el bigote grande, perro, manteca.

  • @[email protected]
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    421 year ago

    Sphinx of black quartz is for edgy nerds who take themselves to seriously. Quick brown fox is chill, like a cool autumn day when the light hits just right and everythings golden. It’s bliss

    • b3nsn0w
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      91 year ago

      counterpoint: quick broen fox is corporatized af while sphinx of black quartz has one hell of a vibe. you’re right that the fox is comfy because the cozy zone is the only spot where fun and corpos intersect and this one just so happens to fall into it but keeping it people-centric was never the point.

      case in point: the test sentence we use in my native language translates to “floodproof mirror drill” to test out all our weird diacritics. no autumn vibes there, only corpos

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    The shortest is apparently “Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex.”

    The pangram article also lists “Glib jocks quiz nymph to vex dwarf,” but without an article before nymph and dwarf it seems to be written in headlinese. I guess it could say “Glib jocks quiz dwarf nymph to vex” instead.

  • @COOLSJ
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    291 year ago

    Abcdefg hijklmnop qrst uvwxyz

  • Resol van Lemmy
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    231 year ago

    Qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

    For Germanophones: Qwertzuiopasdfghjklyxcvbnm

    For Francophones: Azertyuiopqsdfghjklmwxcvbn

  • manmikey
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    When I started my career as a telecoms data engineer back in thr '80s the we used QBF to test modems on dial up data connections…the tester had a QBF button that would sent the text to a tester at the other end or it could even test round a loop back to itself.

    You could inject errors with a button and these errors would count up on a basic 8 segment red led display to prove everything was working okay…happy days