The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog(en.wikipedia.org)

14 pointsby matt1vor 16 Jahren5 comments

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog

5 comments

duckvor 16 Jahren

If you have downloaded a font in the last ten years you probably have seen this.

jparisevor 16 Jahren

I remember when I first learned about this sentence. I was in my grammar school's computer lab playing a typing tutor game (probably from MECC), and it had me type this phrase repeatedly. After the first dozen times, I asked the computer teacher what was up.

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vault_vor 16 Jahren

I think more interesting than this article are the self-enumerating pangrams described in the one linked to it.

techiferousvor 16 Jahren

Yes. They're like quines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram#Self-enumerating_pangra...

danramtekevor 16 Jahren

This is another of those things that my dad taught me while growing up.