Simplicity trumped form when such things were drawn up
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.
Waltz, bad nymph is great, I will use that in the future
Seems like an aggressive pickup line
Shouldn’t it be Fjord-bank cwm, as in the cwm on the bank of the fjord? Cwm fjord-bank sounds like the fjord-bank of the cwm.
Yeah, if you switch to some similar phrases like “river bank hole drawings” it’s easy to see that it wouldn’t be “hole river bank drawings”. Also it’s missing an article before quiz. I guess it could be written in headline-style, but that seems like cheating. Just another reason it doesn’t really work I guess, and why the “waltz bad nymph” sentence is so impressive.
Or it’s a pseudo proper noun, like teach.
cwm
does coomb come from cwm?
Jovial skippers quiz frowning ex-beef wags
Is even better
I think you’re missing a couple letters there bud.
Thanks Bing AI for making me look like a dickhead :-(
I hope you learned your lesson. LLMs are neat but they’re not intelligent.
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.
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.
Also some č æ ø đ ē ç œ
“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.
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”.
Good catch. Dogs. Or jumps.
boxers had zap of gay jock love, quit women
Came here for this one! 👊⚡️👨🏻❤️👨🏻🏋️❤️🚫👯♀️
No amount of coolness can ever beat the cute animals.
maybe the sphinx is half cute half animal
It’s easy to remember. I can’t forget about the quick brown fox. However, I’ve already forgotten the alternative. Something black? Idk
To answer honestly, it’s because the first sentence only uses common and easy to spell words.
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.
The second sentence is harder
‘The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog’ does not contain the letter S.
It’s jumps.
Because it’s simpler, and has simple words, easy for kids to learn and remember.
Notably this post gets it wrong too, missing the S. It’s “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”.
That’s because this movie scene etched in into people’s memory
no it’s cause it’s used by dafont and google fonts