I am font hunting again
-
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.
-
This post did not contain any content.
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....
-
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....
Can you devise a superior sentence? (Don’t have to if you don’t want to)
-
This post did not contain any content.
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.
-
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.
-
It's true, your experience is entirely representative of everyone else.
Wait, have you seen a sphinx? That's cool!
-
This post did not contain any content.
Sphinx coolness is not enough face to face with two cute animals in one sentence.
-
Can you devise a superior sentence? (Don’t have to if you don’t want to)
I don't need to, there were several alternatives on Wikipedia:
- Yxmördaren Julia Blomqvist på fäktning i Schweiz
- Schweiz för lyxfjäder på qvist bakom ugn
- FAQ om Schweiz: Klöv du trång pjäxby? - this is an incomprehensible sentence, though it must be said, it does sound Swedish when spoken.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Tjock ges BMW på quiz, hänförd av lyx - one of the best pangrams here, it contains every letter and, even better, is perfectly logical.
-
This post did not contain any content.
"Zażółć gęślą jaźń" uses all the diacritics in Polish and was used to test code pages.
-
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.
-
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?
-
"Zażółć gęślą jaźń" uses all the diacritics in Polish and was used to test code pages.
ů̶͎̱̍̉̄͆ ̸̨̎̃̈́͐́͗̍̊͗̓͛́̕ẅ̸̰̯̗͔́͘0̴̡̯̹̉́̽̊t̸̗͓͓͇̭͖̩̭̪̲͓̖͕̳͈́̌͐͌̅̉́̉́̀͊̑͘͝ ̸̡̛͍͋͊̃̎͌͛̐̃̋͑̚͘̚͝m̵̧̧͚̘̻̰̗̜̺͔͐̍̇̏̽̀͘ͅ8̶͈̣̻̰͎̺̺͎̓͜
-
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.
-
This post did not contain any content.wrote on last edited by [email protected]
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.
-
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.
-
I've seen "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back" used to get the s in there.
Inefficient.
-
This post did not contain any content.
erm, it's "jumps" over the lazy dog, not "jumped".
-
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
-
This post did not contain any content.
Well, jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. So there.
-
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.
