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    In a certain language, a sentence about a coloured horse sighing demonic poetry is traditionally used as a test. What is the language and what is tested this way?

    Question #62122. Asked by gmackematix. (Jan 30 06 7:36 PM)


    lanfranco

    		In Czech, the sentence "A very yellow horse screamed hellish odes" apparently contains all of the Czech letters with diacritical marks and presumably may be used to test typefaces. I'll have to take this site's word for it, since I know next to nothing about Czech:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram

    Jan 31 06, 10:25 AM
    lanfranco

    		I just looked at Wikipedia's Czech Language site and discovered that this sentence can also be translated "A too yellow horse moaned devilish odes." That comes a little closer to your description.

    Jan 31 06, 10:34 AM
    gmackematix

    		Jaj Frankie!
    I don't know much about Czech either, except that they like using r's and l's without preceding vowels and that "ano" means yes.

    Jan 31 06, 6:50 PM

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