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rcurl
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Pangrammatry
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Jan 17 18:25 UTC 2002 |
Pangrammatry is the practice of framing sentences containing every
letter of the alphabet. One that indulges in this practice is a
pangrammatist.
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rcurl
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response 1 of 15:
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Jan 17 18:26 UTC 2002 |
"John P. Brady gave me a black-walnut box of quite a small size."
-William Whitney's Century Dictionary, 1889
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albaugh
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response 2 of 15:
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Jan 17 20:04 UTC 2002 |
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
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rcurl
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response 3 of 15:
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Jan 17 20:58 UTC 2002 |
Source?
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gelinas
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response 4 of 15:
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Jan 18 06:15 UTC 2002 |
My mother gave me "The quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog" as a
typing exercise. I don't know where she got it.
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rcurl
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response 5 of 15:
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Jan 18 07:02 UTC 2002 |
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/bft/bft_browser_html_mix2.html
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gelinas
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response 6 of 15:
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Jan 18 07:09 UTC 2002 |
There is no 's' in the version on that page.
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rcurl
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response 7 of 15:
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Jan 18 07:34 UTC 2002 |
What a faux pas! I cited the page to illustrate how common pangrammatry
was, but did not see it was not a pangrammatism.
But my hope was to see if others know other pangrammatisms - and maybe
why people have made them up. However a search on pangrammatist on
the web is NOT helpful.
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kentn
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response 8 of 15:
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Jan 18 13:13 UTC 2002 |
Try searching for "pangram" and you'll find quite a few pages dedicated
to these sentences. Some of them even list the sources/contributors (if
known).
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davel
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response 9 of 15:
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Jan 18 15:33 UTC 2002 |
I learned it as "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.". I saw it
first when shopping for a typewriter, & at that time didn't see why anyone
had used that sentence.
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rcurl
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response 10 of 15:
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Jan 18 19:51 UTC 2002 |
Thanks, Kent. http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/home/ajcd/type/pangram.html lists
dozens of pangrams - in English, French, Dutch and otherwise.
I learned about "pangrammatist" from a calendar block my daughter got
for Xmas, which gives a daily "forgotten word". The example it gave
was the one I quoted in #1.
The shortest one in English at the above URL has 29 letters:"Quick zephyrs
blow, vexing daft Jim.". Is there one with exactly 26?
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kentn
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response 11 of 15:
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Jan 19 00:00 UTC 2002 |
This page has a few 26 letter pangrams, although they contain some
pretty obscure words (if you can call them that):
http://einstein.et.tudelft.nl/~arlet/puzzles/sol.cgi/language/english/sente
nces/pangram
Such as: Phlegms fyrd wuz qvint jackbox.
Another page had this one, which makes a little more sense:
TV quiz drag nymphs blew JFK cox.
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rcurl
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response 12 of 15:
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Jan 19 06:59 UTC 2002 |
What drives people to do this? Are any of YOU driven to do this?
Another questioin (alluded to above). The URLs found from searching
for pangrammatist in Google are 95%+ porn sites. It is apparently a
porn keyword. Why?
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gelinas
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response 13 of 15:
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Jan 19 07:03 UTC 2002 |
_everything_ is a porn keyword.
I'm driven to pun, and I love word play, but not at the letter level.
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rcurl
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response 14 of 15:
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Jan 19 07:33 UTC 2002 |
pangrammatry doesn't get any hits on Google - your first statement is
incorrect.
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gelinas
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response 15 of 15:
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Jan 19 07:35 UTC 2002 |
so they missed one? don't tell them; they'll fix it.
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