Weekly Classic Computer Trivia Question (20150105)

Mike Stein mhs.stein at gmail.com
Sun Jan 4 11:14:34 CST 2015


Franz jagt im komplett verwahrlosten Taxi quer durch Bayern.

BTW, these are known as Pangrams.

m


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Caron" <scaron at umich.edu>
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Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Weekly Classic Computer Trivia Question (20150105)


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 bäckasiner söka hwila på mjuka tuvor (qxz)"
>
> /P
>



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