The quick brown fox

[Stephanie Briggs]

Does it really have to make sense?

After all, in another case of linguistic trickery, there is the phrase "the
horse raced past the barn fell" and that definitely doesn't make any sense.
It's not supposed to.

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On 28 March 2011 06:27, Jules Levin <ameliede at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 3/27/2011 9:08 PM, greniers at GEORGETOWN.EDU wrote:
>
>> How about:
>> Quick brown dogs jump over the lazy fox?
>> (It makes more sense than lazy dogs jumping over the quick fox, it seems
>> to me...)
>>
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>>
> Since we have slid into the absurd, the quick dogs would not jump over a
> LAZY fox, they would kill it!
> Also, if you change fox to fax, you add an underrepresented 'a' and
> eliminate an overrepresented 'o'!
> Jules Levin
> Retired in Los Angeles
>
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