#pangrams

[mickeys-malarkey]

I've seen a lotta people say that their screen readers can't read a lotta special characters; even ones that're just Latin letters in fancy fonts… So, I have a question for people who use those: can your screen reader read this Shavian alphabet pangram, or no…? 🤔

Note: apologies to non-screen reader users, it says I can't edit the poll block now that this is published, so I can't add a “see results” option for y'all. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I'll do that next time, if I don't use up all the slots like I usually do. 😅

End-of-poll update: okay, wow…! May've gotten a really tiny number of votes, but these results are still interesting! ⅔ straight-up yes, ⅓ no? That's like, genuinely so cool that a majority could read it & do it well; I'm glad! 👏🏻

[octochan]

Last year I posted this cross stitch Ouija pattern I made that I've been tinkering with off and on since then. Here is where it's at, and I think this is the final version before I really should stitch the dang thing already.

Also, alphabets being what they are, are you allowed to make a ouija board like this? I thought it was fun but it might confuse the spirits you want to talk to.

I'm thinking of putting these and maybe some other patterns I've accumulated on StitchFiddle onto Gumroad, we'll see.

[sublingual-art]

Finished all the letters for my game font based on my handwriting! This was a super satisfying exercise and I'm glad I revisited it. Some letters are a little too bold but I might clean that up when I go back and do the rest of the punctuation.

[tokiro07]

I did a little more digging and I think I may have made a mistake in my pangram; though in IPA, "small" can be pronounced with either ɑ: (Ah) or ɔː (Aw), all Quikscript dictionaries that I've found specifically use Aw. For the sake of consistency between other Quikscript users, I have amended my pangram, and in doing so actually made it MORE efficient!

Ah, what j-oi she (the g-ay w-ih-ch) y-oo-zh-oo-uh-l-[ih] f-ow-n-d b-ai p-ue-t-ing h-eh-ks-z on eh-gz-ah-k-t-l-[ih] TH-r-ee s-m-awe-l v-o-l-z Ah, what joy she (the gay witch) usually found by putting hexes on exactly three small voles!

Now there are only 9 redundancies across 51 characters, as I was able to remove the Utter and No in "unusual", though I did end up moving the It from "in" to make "usually"

Sadly, I don't think it's as fun to not qualify the hexes as unusual, but it is better than saying "usual hexes." That would be objectively better for saving characters, at 50 w/ 8 redundancies, but it would sound awkward and be conceptually a little boring in my opinion, and I just won't stand for that

I also added in brackets so anyone using this for handwriting practice can get experience with the unique way they're written in Quikscript! If anyone has any suggestions for how I can further refine this or anything else I can add to it, like a way to incorporate Loch or Llan, I'm all ears!

[alphabetcompletionist]

The quick brown fox is condemned to never meet the lazy dog in her trajectory, always jumping before they touch. This, too, is yuri.

bless

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

26/26

[blueflyingturtleontheway]

Nie ale mnie dalej fascynuje fakt że "mężny bądź chroń pułk twój i sześć flag" to idealny polski pangram, nie tylko pod względem znaków oczywiście, ale też dlatego że to zdanie jest takie??? Polskie??? Jakby 1000 lat kultury i nieważne kiedy byś to pokazał Polakowi to by stwierdził "no, ma sens". I do tego autor nieznany. Co jest.

[389]

Neue Montreal Mono The workhorse type of Monospace

[abugidaithink]

a pangram in toki pona:

jan li mute e poki suwi

contains all 14 toki pona letters (with 4 duplicates)

rough translation: "the person makes more boxes of sweets"

[alsteneldoeight]

so the

[nettakrim]

hiring: need one sphinx of black quartz to judge vows

[tokiro07]

Did a little research and found that not only is there already a term for a pangram that uses each grapheme only once (a "perfect pangram"), but even in orthodox English you can pretty much only get one by either using abbreviations (which I'm already doing) or loanwords, and even then you end up with something near unintelligible

So I decided to try relaxing my standards a bit and just going for a sentence that works and not sweat a couple of redundancies, though I still tried to keep them to a minimum

To that end, my pangram came out to be:

What j-oy she, the g-ay w-ih-ch, f-ow-n-d b-ai p-ue-t-ing uh-n-y-oo-zh-oo-uh-l h-eh-ks-z on eh-gz-ah-k-t-l-[ih] TH-r-ee s-m-ah-l v-oh-l-z in awe What joy she, the gay witch, found by putting unusual hexes on exactly three small voles in awe.

That gives me 53 characters total with 11 redundant graphemes

I imagine a more skilled linguist could have figured out a way to do it more succinctly, but I rather like what I came up with, and I feel pretty accomplished finally getting it done after several days of struggle

At some point I'll need to look into a font that lets me type in Senior Quikscript rather than Junior so that the letters will join and halve properly, but this is good enough for now

[poison-breadth]

"Landzcape"

for Jan Zwicky and Christian Bök

Each line is a pangram (contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet), the first letters of each line form the alphabet in order, the last letters form the alphabet in reverse, each line depicts a different natural scene, and no nouns, verbs, or adjectives are repeated within the text

[alphabetcompletionist]

actually i could totally be a wordgirl character if i could make it to auditions. just uh. no idea where on the scale i'd fall

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO RSTU W Y

21/26

[abuddyforeveryseason]

I finished reading a book!

Ella Minnow Pea, a novel by Mark Dunn. It's about the title character, a young lady living in an island country. The crazies who rule over the island start banning the use of certain letters in writing and speech, one at a time - the first letter to go is Z, so Ella can no longer use words containing Z in her letters to her cousin. That's not so bad, but, as more letters are banned, it gets harder and harder to write and talk. When they ban D, for instance, the characters have trouble using the past tense, except for a handful of irregular verbs.

It was an interesting read, pretty short.

But, you know... the point of the story was pretty obvious - censorship is bad. Making it hard for people to use words is a way to make them easier to control. And I don't disagree. Still, it's a book with an interesting gimmick, and the fun of it is the later parts of the story, where you have to work hard to figure out what the characters mean through the convoluted words.

So it kind of defeats the point. There's a meme about Gundam, a show about robots.

I've never seen it so I can't speak to how accurate it is, but I kind of feel like the guy who missed the point of the show in the meme. A lot of people are that way. They see a story, like a movie, where the point is something pretty obvious like "war is bad" or "censorship is bad", but just think it's a cool story.

So, someone made an answer to the meme:

And yeah, that's a pretty fair criticism. If you don't want people to think something's super cool, maybe don't make it look super cool. Cause, you know, it's easy to profit off of that. And, you know, that's what attracts people to the story.

I think that, when so many people miss the point of a story, after a while, the creator is partly to blame. Maybe it's not a matter of intent, but of competence, in that way. And they make money when people consume the story regardless of whether they understand it or not.

Now, a really gruesome story is harder to sell. Showing how horrible war and censorship really are make for a really depressing story - one that comes with its own pitfalls about being misunderstood.

I have a real pet peeve regarding that type of stuff. A guy (you know who I'm talking about) makes a movie about the edgy badass that's not supposed to be idolized. But when someone complains that the badass is being idolized, people will rush to defend the movie - "no, you're missing the point, it was a criticism, not and endorsement, of that kind of behavior".

Nah, I'm not missing the point. I'm just saying the director did a bad job. Or, you know, considering how much money he made, had some ulterior motive.

P.S. - There's nothing in the book that actually says Ella wasn't white. I just assumed so since the island nation is on the southeastern coast of the US.

[twd-has-a-pen]

kdo nemá oblíbený pangram nežil

[danatron1]

"Sphinx of black quartz, jump over my lazy dog" is only 1 letter off being a functional pangram