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[lojban-beginners] Holoalphabetic sentence?



A "holoalphabetic sentence" is one that uses all the letters
of the alphabet.

In English, the most common one (known to almost every typing
student) is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
(Not "jumped" -- you need the s!)

I think the shortest known one is "Jackdaws love my big sphinx
of quartz." (A jackdaw is some kind of bird.)

So: What can be done in Lojban?

I would say that dot and comma don't count as alphabetic. As for
the apostrophe, I would think it's hard to write a sentence of
significant length without one anyway. (Yes, someone will post
a counterexample immediately.)

I would think it's cheating slightly to use a cmene, since those
can contain any letters you happen to have left.

Has this been done before? If not, let's do it now.

By the way, I think real palindromes are impossible in Lojban
sentences.


Cheers,
Hal