Bonus 43: The quick brown pangram jumps over the lazy dog (Patreon)

Pangrams are sentences that contain all of the letters of the alphabet, like the famous "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and the more obscure "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!". 

In this episode, Gretchen and Lauren get enthusiastic about pangrams and the further questions that they raise about the structure of various languages. How short can you get an English pangram without becoming incoherent? Which characters are hard to include in different languages? Do accented characters count as separate letters? What kinds of using-every-symbol writing can you make with non-alphabetic writing systems? 

Tell us about your favourite pangrams on the Lingthusiasm Discord in the #new-episodes channel! (Or if you're reading this from the future, feel free to revive the topic of pangrams in the #old-episodes channel!) If you haven't joined the Discord yet, it's a private chat server for Lingthusiasm patrons and it's a fun place to find other people who are enthusiastic about linguistics to chat to (including an excellent array of lingthusiastic custom emoji made by your fellow lingthusiasts). 

Announcements:

We have exciting new merch colours! Our International Phonetic Alphabet scarves and masks, notebooks, mugs, and socks are now available in Raspberry, Mustard, and Lilac with white IPA symbols.

Also check out our Schwa (Never Stressed) pins, Tree Diagram scarves and more, Esoteric Symbols scarves and more, and more at RedBubble. We'll also have some more new merch for this season coming out next week, but we wanted to give you a heads up as patrons for the parts that we have finalized so far! 

Here are the links mentioned in this episode:

• Pangrammatic windows
• Japanese pangram
• Chinese pangram
• Devanagari pangram 
• List of pangrams in various languages 

You can listen to this episode on this page, via the Patreon RSS or download the mp3. A transcript of this episode is available as a Google Doc. Lingthusiasm is also on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter. Email us at contact [at] lingthusiasm [dot] com or chat to us on the Patreon page. Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at AllThingsLinguistic. Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo. 

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our editorial producer is Sarah Dopierala, and our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles