A pangram is a sentence that uses all of the letters of the alphabet. Pangram in Greek means "every letter". Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and keyboarding. Pangrams are fun, but hard to make. I have tried to make one up on my own but it became a mess. An example of a pangram is, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". Another one is, "Brown jars prevented the mixture from freezing too quickly". If you get time, you should try to make your own pangram.
A lipogram is a text that purposefully excludes a particular letter of the alphabet. Lipogram in Greek means "missing letter". I think lipograms are a lot harder to make than pangrams because you can't use a particular letter in the whole text. "A Void" is an example of a lipogram that is a 300 page novel that doesn't contain the letter e. The novel "Gadsby: Champion of youth" is a story of more than 50,000 words and does not contain the letter e. I find it amazing how people can create lipograms and pangrams.
I've heard of the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", but I never knew it was called a pangram. I've also never heard of lipograms, but I find it amazing that it's even possible to make a whole story without a common letter such as e. I wonder how long it took to write it, honestly. I couldn't imagine trying that myself, but I think trying to make a pangram would be cool.
ReplyDeleteI didn't think that names for these kinds of sentences even existed. That's pretty cool though. It's kind of makes me want to try it. I have heard of people playing the "lipogram game," particularly with the letter 'e.' I've tried playing before... It's so much harder than you'd think. I think that's pretty impressive to write an entire novel excluding one letter, especially one as common as 'e.'
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