Am wondering if there is a sentence (or two) that is documented anywhere that captures all–or most–of the character variations and combinations in Gregg (any version).
For example: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog contains every letter of the English alphabet.
Having such a tool would put the rules into practice in a way that is memorable.
It has to have been done. If only as a puzzle for someone who wrote Gregg and liked puzzles. Whether anyone still knows about it is another matter…
Considering all the various ways that Gregg letter-forms can be connected together, it might take more than it would at first seem. It would be an interesting exercise, however.
Hmmm… something that would join all the principles… I'll have to think about that. Maybe get my kids to help with that…
Maybe phonetic pangrams (more info) are a good place to start:
“The beige hue on the waters of the loch impressed all, including the French queen, before she heard that symphony again, just as young Arthur wanted.” (source)
has got quite a lot of the pre-anniversary principles and forms in it (including some of the rarer ones, like "loch"). It's got reversing principle, the "-ing the" principle, etc.
I knew the sample sentence I cited was called a pangram but did not know a phonetic pangrams existed.
I guess what I’m looking for, then, is a pangram that demonstrates not only all the phoenetics but also as many of the joinings and brief forms as possible. Might be able to do all that in a couple paragraphs.
By the way: found an old post that discusses the same idea https://gregg-shorthand.com/2015/01/11/shorthand-pangra/
Thanks!