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[–] 201 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

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.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Apparently not. ☹️

    edit: Aww, they fixed the typo. Now my joke is lame(er).

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 58 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

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    [–] 53 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Two of those words are difficult to spell, a third is quite often misspelled, and the phrase is not as easy to remember.

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    [–] 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)
    • Fix problem quickly with galvanized jets
    • Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes
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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    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.

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    it's jumps not jumped

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Abcdefg hijklmnop qrst uvwxyz

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm

    For Germanophones: Qwertzuiopasdfghjklyxcvbnm

    For Francophones: Azertyuiopqsdfghjklmwxcvbn

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's jumps, not jumped, otherwise there's no S.

    And I also prefer the sphinx one.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago*

    Boxers had a zap of gay jock love, quit women.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    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

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  • Because I use the only one that I can remember.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Agreed. The "Sphinx" sentence is the cooler of the two. I've been using it for a long time. My personal twist: the last word becomes "vowel," not "vow." For me, easier on the ears.

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There is no s in the first phrase

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Franz jagt im komplett verwahrlosten Taxi quer durch Bayern

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I like foxes and dogs, they are cute!

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Crazy Frederick bought many very exquisite opal jewels.

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