{"id":35789,"date":"2024-09-09T14:41:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T19:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=35789"},"modified":"2024-09-09T14:41:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T19:41:05","slug":"sphinx-of-black-quartz-judge-my-vow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=35789","title":{"rendered":"Sphinx of Black Quartz, Judge My Vow!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A pangram <\/strong>or holoalphabetic sentence is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and typing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Origins<\/strong>
The best-known English pangram is “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”<\/em><\/strong>. It has been used since at least the late 19th century and was used by Western Union to test Telex\/TWX data communication equipment for accuracy and reliability. Pangrams like this are now used by a number of computer programs to display computer typefaces.<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Elder G<\/strong> and I had a blast “visualizing” some of these pangrams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The five boxing wizards jump quickly.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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When zombies arrive, quickly fax Judge Pat.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Go, lazy fat vixen; be shrewd, jump quick.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Six big devils from Japan quickly forgot how to waltz.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Puzzled women bequeath jerks very exotic gifts.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Foreign Pangrams<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

WLBOTT Ministry of Virtue and Vice<\/strong>
To protect our younger visitors, we will exclude some of the more indelicate translations (oh, yes, there are some very indelicate pangrams<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n

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French<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume (“Take this old whisky to the blond judge who is smoking”) uses each basic consonant once, though not any letters with diacritics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Irish<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

D’ith cat m\u00f3r dubh na h\u00e9isc lofa go pras (“A large black cat ate the rotten fish promptly”) has 31 letters and includes all 18 letters found in native Irish words, but does not include the accented \u00e1, \u00ed, or \u00fa, nor the non-accented e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bulgarian<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u041f\u043e\u0434 \u044e\u0436\u043d\u043e \u0434\u044a\u0440\u0432\u043e, \u0446\u044a\u0444\u0442\u044f\u0449\u043e \u0432 \u0441\u0438\u043d\u044c\u043e, \u0431\u044f\u0433\u0430\u0448\u0435 \u043c\u0430\u043b\u043a\u043e \u043f\u0443\u0445\u043a\u0430\u0432\u043e \u0437\u0430\u0439\u0447\u0435 (“Under a southern tree, blooming in blue, ran a little fluffy bunny”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What? A pangram or holoalphabetic sentence is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and typing. OriginsThe best-known English pangram is “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. It has been used since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[82,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erudition","category-random-acts-of-wlbottness"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35789"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35868,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35789\/revisions\/35868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}