https://xkcd.com/2912

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𝓘 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓬𝓪𝓹𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓛 𝓲𝓼 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓫𝓪𝓫𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓾𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮, 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓬𝓪𝓼𝓮 𝓺 𝓲𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓼𝓸 𝓪 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻.

  • mindbleach
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    8 months ago

    Some additional fun pangrams, for this purpose or otherwise:

    Fix problem quickly with galvanized jets.

    Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

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      8 months ago

      Thanks for the pangrams. One problem I have with pangrams is that for demonstrating cursive writing, you also have to take into consideration how the letters join up. The letters would have a slightly different shape depending on the letters adjacent to them. In a way, it’s like the Arabic script.

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        8 months ago

        There’s probably pan… ligature-grams. Some hideous paragraph that concisely demonstrates every valid pair. Ballpark, every letter has to appear once with a different letter after it, so an example would be on the order of one thousand characters.

        That feels alarmingly like a programming puzzle for this late at night.

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          8 months ago

          Yeah, it is. I’m kinda glad it’s in the middle of the day here where I live. I wouldn’t want to be up at night teasing this horrible, horrible combinatorics puzzle in bed.