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.
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.
Notably this post gets it wrong too, missing the S. It's "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".
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.
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".
if you mean the sphinx one, it has it in the word "of"
parent comment was deleted but isn't federating to all instances.
I realized it right after I hit send. Deleted it but I guess some people can still see it
To answer honestly, it's because the first sentence only uses common and easy to spell words.
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.
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.
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
"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.
"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.)
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.
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.
There's a "the' in the quote.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
>>> sorted(set("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"))[2:]
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z']
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.
It's easy to remember. I can't forget about the quick brown fox. However, I've already forgotten the alternative. Something black? Idk
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.