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    This post genuinely inspired me a year ago and now I use that sentence instead of the lazy dog one

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      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

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        Pangrams! My goto has been How quickly daft jumping zebras vex! for a little while, it's just so silly.

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          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

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          I've never seen a fox in daily life either. Might as well be the same as a sphinx if that's the bar.

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            Jumps not jumped. You are missing an 's' otherwise. I'm amazed how common this mistake is 😁

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            • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldH [email protected]

              I've never seen a fox in daily life either. Might as well be the same as a sphinx if that's the bar.

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              It's true, your experience is entirely representative of everyone else.

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                I've never seen a fox in daily life either. Might as well be the same as a sphinx if that's the bar.

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                See them as a writen word.

                There are no "hard" words in the fox sentence. While some people might struggle with writing sphinx or quartz.

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                  It's true, your experience is entirely representative of everyone else.

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                  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.

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                    In Sweden we use this weird old sentence:

                    "Flygande bäckasiner söka hwila på mjuka tuvor",

                    It doesn't even contian all letters, so you have to add "QXZ" to the end to complete the test....

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                      In Sweden we use this weird old sentence:

                      "Flygande bäckasiner söka hwila på mjuka tuvor",

                      It doesn't even contian all letters, so you have to add "QXZ" to the end to complete the test....

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                      Can you devise a superior sentence? (Don’t have to if you don’t want to)

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                        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.

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                        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldH [email protected]

                          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.

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                          Daily urban life is very conducive to them, they scavenge bins around my area all the time.

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                            It's true, your experience is entirely representative of everyone else.

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                            Wait, have you seen a sphinx? That's cool!

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                              Sphinx coolness is not enough face to face with two cute animals in one sentence.

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                                Can you devise a superior sentence? (Don’t have to if you don’t want to)

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                                I don't need to, there were several alternatives on Wikipedia:

                                1. Yxmördaren Julia Blomqvist på fäktning i Schweiz
                                2. Schweiz för lyxfjäder på qvist bakom ugn
                                3. FAQ om Schweiz: Klöv du trång pjäxby? - this is an incomprehensible sentence, though it must be said, it does sound Swedish when spoken.
                                4. Yxskaftbud, ge vår WC-zonmö IQ-hjälp - this is also incomprehensible, plus the first word seems to be misspelled, it should be "Yxskaftsbud", the missing s makes it hard to pronounce
                                5. Gud hjälpe Zorns mö qwickt få byx av - a sentence with old spellings and words, and rather naughty meaning, this sentence also misses the letter V, in the past when w and v could be used interchangeably it would be a proper pangram.
                                6. Byxfjärmat föl gick på duvshowen - misses Q and Z, but has the combinations fj and fö, which is very useful to test fonts for Swedish compabillity.
                                7. Tjock ges BMW på quiz, hänförd av lyx - one of the best pangrams here, it contains every letter and, even better, is perfectly logical.
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                                  "Zażółć gęślą jaźń" uses all the diacritics in Polish and was used to test code pages.

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                                    Jumps not jumped. You are missing an 's' otherwise. I'm amazed how common this mistake is 😁

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                                    I've seen "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back" used to get the s in there.

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                                      This post genuinely inspired me a year ago and now I use that sentence instead of the lazy dog one

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                                      Doesn’t it miss an f?

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                                        "Zażółć gęślą jaźń" uses all the diacritics in Polish and was used to test code pages.

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                                        ů̶͎̱̍̉̄͆ ̸̨̎̃̈́͐́͗̍̊͗̓͛́̕ẅ̸̰̯̗͔́͘0̴̡̯̹̉́̽̊t̸̗͓͓͇̭͖̩̭̪̲͓̖͕̳͈́̌͐͌̅̉́̉́̀͊̑͘͝ ̸̡̛͍͋͊̃̎͌͛̐̃̋͑̚͘̚͝m̵̧̧͚̘̻̰̗̜̺͔͐̍̇̏̽̀͘ͅ8̶͈̣̻̰͎̺̺͎̓͜

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                                          I've never seen a fox in daily life either. Might as well be the same as a sphinx if that's the bar.

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                                          i think it's more about being words that kids will know.

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