Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow is a lot cooler, but it's missing ÅÄÖ the black metal letters... 😂 @linguistics @linguisticsmemes@a.gup.pe @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop#LinguisticMemes #Memes #Linguistics #Language #Words #Humor #Humour

Post by Keep Calm and Carrion

How did "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" become the typical
sentence that contains all letters of the alphabet and not "sphinx of black
quartz, judge my vow" which is objectively a million times cooler.
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Quick brown fox is the grammatical equivalent of programmer art, just good enough for the purpose but by rule must be devoid of any aesthetic appeal. Sphynx of black rock is what happens when an actual grammatical poet/artist is hired to dress up the UI.

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