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| Adamdm Groupie Australia Joined 5434 days ago 62 posts - 89 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Dari, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 1 of 11 13 August 2010 at 3:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contains all of the letters used in the English language.
Do forum members know of comparable sentences in languages with non-Latin alphabets? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5324 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 2 of 11 13 August 2010 at 5:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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Not what you're looking for, but this is a lesser known sentence than the "brown fox" that contains all the letters:
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kazen Diglot Groupie Japan japanese-me.com Joined 5325 days ago 96 posts - 133 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese | Message 3 of 11 13 August 2010 at 6:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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Yup! Japanese has Iroha, a poem that uses all of the phonetic hiragana characters. What's amazing is that it accomplishes the feat with no repeats. Take that, you foxy line with four o's! -_^ Edited by Kazen on 13 August 2010 at 6:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Adamdm Groupie Australia Joined 5434 days ago 62 posts - 89 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Dari, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 4 of 11 13 August 2010 at 7:07am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks - that's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for! Following up on this on the web has also lead me to discover "man'yōgana", an early form of Japanese phonetic writing. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5317 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 5 of 11 13 August 2010 at 7:07am | IP Logged | |||||
Apparently, these sentences are called Pangrams and Wikipedia has a long article about them with lots of examples of pangrams in non-Latin alphabets. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Adamdm Groupie Australia Joined 5434 days ago 62 posts - 89 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Dari, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 6 of 11 13 August 2010 at 7:19am | IP Logged | |||||
Bonza! Lots of great pearls of wisdom in there too - a random example:
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| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5317 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 7 of 11 13 August 2010 at 9:06am | IP Logged | |||||
Who would have thunk it? :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| eumiro Bilingual Octoglot Groupie Germany Joined 5271 days ago 74 posts - 102 votes Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, French, English, German, Polish, Spanish, Russian Studies: Italian, Hungarian | Message 8 of 11 13 August 2010 at 9:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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"Příliš žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy" - this is the Czech sentence, that contains all letters with special characters and is often used to check the correct encoding in software, webpages, etc.
It means something like 'A too yellow horse moaned devil odes.' 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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