[HN Gopher] Pangram ___________________________________________________________________ Pangram Author : bryanrasmussen Score : 41 points Date : 2023-02-11 20:51 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (en.wikipedia.org) (TXT) w3m dump (en.wikipedia.org) | onnodigcomplex wrote: | It's a fun programming/puzzle challenge. I developed a perfect | pangram in Dutch about a teachers bike that is very lightweight | and fast, but not so strong | | Jufs BMX: hypervlot c.q. zwak ding | bruce343434 wrote: | "C.Q." is an abbreviation that could mean different things | depending on the context. It is not a widely recognized or | commonly used abbreviation, and its meaning is not immediately | clear. Can you provide some more information or context about | it? | tremon wrote: | In Dutch, c.q. is an abbreviation of the Latin term casu quo, | meaning "or instead, alternatively" (lit. in which case). It | doesn't really fit here because it suggests that vlot (quick) | and zwak (weak) are interchangeable adjectives -- nor does it | match the English usage of the same term, where it is used | more like a premise/supposition rather than a conjunction. | itcrowd wrote: | It is common in Dutch, short for _casu quo_ (latin). | | "A c.q. B" means something like "A or otherwise B" (example | translated from Dutch wikipedia page) | | https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_quo | zabzonk wrote: | sorry didn't see anything in english on that page. | | it's strange how a language that absorbs everything it | comes across didn't bag this, perhaps there something else | in english that does the same job? | TimTheTinker wrote: | In amateur radio, especially CW/morse code, CQ means | "looking for someone to talk to". It's an abbreviated | homonym for "seek you". | | If you hear "CQ CQ CQ de WB6NOA" being transmitted, it | would mean the person who owns call sign WB6NOA is | looking to talk to someone on this frequency. | zabzonk wrote: | i did know that (in the back of my brain, and watching | Ellie in "Contact") but don't see how it applies here. | fortran77 wrote: | Ah the page is back! | | See: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio... | | It gets deleted periodically for Wikipedian reasons like "It is | mostly comprised of nonsense phrases thought up by people who | apparently find this sort of thing terribly clever." | vmatsiiako wrote: | Interesting haha, looks like it's translated to 55 languages | though! | [deleted] | realworldperson wrote: | [dead] | zabzonk wrote: | https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/computer-recreati... | | it's dewdney, but paywalled | euroderf wrote: | Nymphs vex, beg quick fjord waltz. | | (27 letters, spotted in the classifieds of a free rag in DC back | in the 70s or 80s) | anonu wrote: | I asked OpenAI for the shortest pangram in the English language. | This is its response: | | > The shortest pangram in the English language is "The quick | brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." | | Clearly it didn't read the wikipedia article. | | Then I asked for an "original pangram": | | > "Fjord zoologists quip jovially, waxing lyrical about xanthic | lutrines." | | A Google search indicates that it may, in fact, be original. | fortran77 wrote: | Maybe, but it's not a pangram. ChatGPT is slippery. (There's no | "k". I stopped looking there.) | bshimmin wrote: | There's a "b" in "about", but there's no "k" or "m". | tsm wrote: | No 'm' either: (def phrase "Fjord | zoologists quip jovially, waxing lyrical about xanthic | lutrines") (require '[clojure.string :as str]) | (-> phrase str/lower-case distinct sort) ;; => | (\space \, \a \b \c \d \e \f \g \h \i \j \l \n \o \p \q \r | \s \t \u \v \w \x \y \z) | | (edit: OP originally just mentioned 'k' but then ninja- | edited in the 'm') | bshimmin wrote: | You are right, I did - sorry. I wrote something similar | in Ruby to check! | teddyh wrote: | Python: >>> import string >>> | phrase = "Fjord zoologists quip jovially, waxing lyrical | about xanthic lutrines" >>> | set(string.ascii_lowercase) - set(phrase.lower()) | {'k', 'm'} | [deleted] | _jfwall wrote: | >> "Fjord zoologists quip jovially, waxing lyrical about | xanthic lutrines." | | > A Google search indicates that it may, in fact, be original. | | Also distinctly non-pangrammatic ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-02-11 23:00 UTC)