4 Jan
2015
4 Jan
'15
8:04 a.m.
Time for another trivia question. We will start off the year with an easy
one. This one is related to computers but not exclusive to computers.
What is the significance of the phrase:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
No fair looking it up on the internet.
Doug Ingraham
PDP-8 S/N 1175
4 Jan
4 Jan
8:20 a.m.
What is the significance of the phrase:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The sentence contains all of the letters of the alphabet, making it suitable as a
good test for electromechanical and electronic typing equipment, as well as a good
exercise for typists to be able to accurately and quickly know each letter key on the
typewriter keyboard.
I didn't look this up anywhere, just knew it from memory from typing class back in
high school.
-Rick Bensene
8:34 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 08:20:25AM -0800, Rick Bensene wrote:
It's nice and all but it lacks a few letters.
"Flygande b?ckasiner s?ka hwila p? mjuka tuvor (qxz)"
/P
What is the
significance of the phrase:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The sentence contains all of the letters of the alphabet 
8:51 a.m.
Chalk me up as a +1 to Rick's answer. But Pontus' question now has me
wondering, are there canonical equivalent phrases to this in other
languages and keyboard layouts? European readers please share!
Best,
Sean
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se>
wrote:
On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 08:20:25AM -0800, Rick Bensene
wrote:
It's nice and all but it lacks a few letters.
"Flygande b?ckasiner s?ka hwila p? mjuka tuvor (qxz)"
/P
What is
the significance of the phrase:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The sentence contains all of the letters of the alphabet 
9:11 a.m.
In Brazil we use the same phrase...
enviado do meu telemovel
Em 04/01/2015 14:57, "Sean Caron" <scaron at umich.edu> escreveu:
Chalk me up as a +1 to Rick's answer. But
Pontus' question now has me
wondering, are there canonical equivalent phrases to this in other
languages and keyboard layouts? European readers please share!
Best,
Sean
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se>
wrote:
On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 08:20:25AM -0800, Rick
Bensene wrote:
It's nice and all but it lacks a few letters.
"Flygande b?ckasiner s?ka hwila p? mjuka tuvor (qxz)"
/P
What is
the significance of the phrase:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The sentence contains all of the letters of the alphabet 
9:14 a.m.
Why would you use the same phrase when
your spelling is different? Why not
invent your own which includes all
letters of the Roman alphabet?
- J.
On 1/4/2015 12:11 PM, Alexandre Souza
wrote:
In Brazil we use the same phrase...
enviado do meu telemovel
Em 04/01/2015 14:57, "Sean Caron"<scaron at umich.edu> escreveu:
Chalk me up as a +1 to Rick's answer. But
Pontus' question now has me
wondering, are there canonical equivalent phrases to this in other
languages and keyboard layouts? European readers please share!
Best,
Sean
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Pontus Pihlgren<pontus at update.uu.se>
wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 08:20:25AM -0800, Rick Bensene wrote:
>>> What is the significance of the phrase:
>>>
>>> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
>>>
>> The sentence contains all of the letters of the alphabet
> It's nice and all but it lacks a few letters.
>
> "Flygande b?ckasiner s?ka hwila p? mjuka tuvor (qxz)"
>
> /P
>
9:14 a.m.
Franz jagt im komplett verwahrlosten Taxi quer durch Bayern.
BTW, these are known as Pangrams.
m
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Chalk me up as a +1 to Rick's answer. But Pontus' question now has me
wondering, are there canonical equivalent phrases to this in other
languages and keyboard layouts? European readers please share!
Best,
Sean
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se>
wrote:
On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 08:20:25AM -0800, Rick Bensene
wrote:
It's nice and all but it lacks a few letters.
"Flygande b?ckasiner s?ka hwila p? mjuka tuvor (qxz)"
/P
What is
the significance of the phrase:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The sentence contains all of the letters of the alphabet 
8:23 a.m.
That phrase uses all the letters in the (English) alphabet.
Regards,
Raymond Wiker
On 04 Jan 2015, at 17:04 , Doug Ingraham <dpi at
dustyoldcomputers.com> wrote:
Time for another trivia question. We will start off the year with an easy
one. This one is related to computers but not exclusive to computers.
What is the significance of the phrase:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
No fair looking it up on the internet.
Doug Ingraham
PDP-8 S/N 1175
9:14 a.m.
On 01/04/2015 10:04 AM, Doug Ingraham wrote:
Time for another trivia question. We will start off
the year with an easy
one. This one is related to computers but not exclusive to computers.
What is the significance of the phrase:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
it has all letters of the alphabet. It was used as part of
an idle string on Teletypes to
free up the mechanism. Usually also had 01234567890 and
RYRYRYRY, which
is 10101 01010 in Baudot.
Jon
9:57 a.m.
On 2015-01-04 17:04, Doug Ingraham wrote:
Time for another trivia question. We will start off
the year with an easy
one. This one is related to computers but not exclusive to computers.
What is the significance of the phrase:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
No fair looking it up on the internet.
It contains all characters in the alphabet, and is a good test phrase
for output.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
10:13 a.m.
On 01/04/2015 08:04 AM, Doug Ingraham wrote:
Time for another trivia question. We will start off
the year with an easy
one. This one is related to computers but not exclusive to computers.
What is the significance of the phrase:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
No fair looking it up on the internet.
Doug Ingraham
PDP-8 S/N 1175
Too easy--it's a typing exercise (predates modern computers) that
incorporates every letter of the English alphabet.
I suspect that other languages have similar exercises, though I don't
know what the Japanese do in Kanji.
--Chuck
11:03 a.m.
On 04/01/2015 16:04, Doug Ingraham wrote:
What is the significance of the phrase:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
It contains all the letters of the English alphabet, as does
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
It originates as a typing exercise, as does
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party,
an exercise for touch typist that has (very) roughly the common ratios
and sequences of letters.
--
Pete
Pete Turnbull
11:42 a.m.
On 01/04/2015 11:03 AM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of
their party,
an exercise for touch typist that has (very) roughly the common ratios
and sequences of letters.
Not only that, it's an exercise for speed, as there are strong patterns
of alternating right- and left-hand letters.
--Chuck
12:38 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 07:03:31PM +0000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On 04/01/2015 16:04, Doug Ingraham wrote:
It contains all the letters of the English alphabet, as does
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
Someone on the FreeBSD.org mailing lists uses
"sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow."
Cited in http://listverse.com/2012/05/16/10-notable-pangrams/ among
others. I didn't know there were so many.
mcl
11:47 a.m.
Time for another trivia question. We will start off the year with an easy
one. This one is related to computers but not exclusive to computers.
What is the significance of the phrase:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
I always prefered
XV QUICK NYMPHS BEG FJORD WALTZ
(both use all the letters in the alphabet, the second one is each letter once and once
only).
From where I am sitting I can see a telegraph
distortion meter which can send the standard (Quick Brow Fox)
test message in 5 bit
ITA2 code (the one that is commonly called Baudot code). The message is stored as a
pattern of conducting and insulating blocks on a disk, with a ratchet mechanism to move it
on after each
character and a set of spring contacts to read out the bits. The serialisation of each 5
bit character is done by
a ring of triode valves. But I digress.
-tony
1:34 p.m.
Hits every key.
On Jan 4, 2015, at 10:04 AM, Doug Ingraham <dpi at
dustyoldcomputers.com> wrote:
Time for another trivia question. We will start off the year with an easy
one. This one is related to computers but not exclusive to computers.
What is the significance of the phrase:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
No fair looking it up on the internet.
Doug Ingraham
PDP-8 S/N 1175
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