Re: CHAT: The Arabic equivalent of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"?
From: | Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> |
Date: | Sunday, May 9, 2004, 19:29 |
In French:
"Portez ce whisky vieux au juge blond qui fume"
which uses of course a foreign word, "whisky", but
also is interesting because it's an alexandrin.
--- Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> wrote:
>
> The famous phrase in the Subject: line above uses
> every letter in the
> English alphabet, and there are other well-known
> sentences in other
> languages. I found a German version online
> somewhere; that at least I can
> remember? So is there any short Arabic sentence that
> uses all 28 letters (29
> if one counts hamzah)? I'd also like to see Greek,
> Russian and Hebrew
> sentences of that sort.
>
> I'm going to try and study Hebrew and Maltese as
> well. Shukran!
=====
Philippe Caquant
"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)
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