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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Philip Newton</b>
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<p>For those who don't know, a pangram is a sentence containing each letter
of the alphabet at least once. Examples in English include <em>The quick
brown fox jumps over a lazy dog</em> and <em>Jackdaws love my big sphinx of
quartz</em>. Here are <a
href="http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/home/ajcd/type/pangram.html">a few more
examples</a>, and <a href="http://www.navvy.com/pdds/pangram.html">some
more</a>.</p>
<p>I tried to construct a pangram in Verdurian. For the sake of the
exercise, I considered vowels with <strong>lenge</strong> (umlaut) to be
separate characters but vowels with <strong>vuáë</strong>
(accent) to be the same as the normal vowel. I also didn't consider
<strong>î</strong> to be a separate letter (since it isn't usually
distinguished in writing). The sentence I came up with is: <strong><img
src="http://shavian.org/verdurian/so-shual.png" width="448" height="16"
alt=""> So shual fsëgdá chümse ab zhöhán er rho
cumotere midhä kyolei</strong> -- <em>The horse always stinks of beer
and doesn't understand a celebration of a dress</em>. Not a very pretty
sentence, perhaps, but it contains all consonants and vowels at least once
(unless I forgot one). (If you count <strong>î</strong> as a separate
letter, you can easily change the sentence to <strong><img
src="http://shavian.org/verdurian/soi-shuali.png" width="464" height="16"
alt=""> Soî shualî fsëgdá chümsu ab
zhöhán er rho cumoteru midhä kyolei</strong> to include
it.)</p>
<p>Can someone make a nicer sentence, and/or one using fewer total letters?
Or perhaps one that also includes each vowel in the three forms basic
(<strong>a e i o u</strong>), accented (<strong>á é í
ó ú</strong>), and umlauted or circumflexed (<strong>ä
ë î ö ü</strong>)?</p>
<p>If you're interested, the distribution of letters in "Subrel er Aksubrel"
is as follows, from most common to least common: <strong>e a n i o r s u l m
t c d sh p ë y k z v zh b f rh î g dh ä h ü ö
ch</strong> (or, counting the accented vowels separately, <strong> e a n i
o r s u l m t c d sh p ë y k z v zh b á f rh
î g dh ä h ü ó ö é í ch
ú</strong>).</p>
<p>Also, can someone construct a palindrome in Verdurian -- that is, a
sentence which reads the same way forwards and backwards? An extremely
simple one is simply <strong>epe</strong> - <em>He is able to</em> (or, even
simpler, <strong>e</strong> - <em>He is</em>).</p>
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