Werd Nerd-ery
I am historically bad at instigating memes. And I mean historically bad, both in the sense that in my history I've been bad at it, and my bad-ness is on a historical scale. But, something
mactavish linked to on Twitter today inspired me to have another go at trying to coax sheep-like following out of others. So, without further weak analogy, I give you...
The Twitter Pangram Challenge!
It all started with
mactavish linking to this from her Twitter-stream. That prompted me to respond with this. And that got me to thinking, which is rarely a good thing. So here's the challenge:
Go forth now and pangram like there's no tomorrow. Or something. Feel free to respond here if I don't already follow you on Twitter (but I will be using the watch feature to keep an eye on them). And by all means, spread this far and wide, here on LJ, on your own Twitter stream, etc.
mactavish linked to on Twitter today inspired me to have another go at trying to coax sheep-like following out of others. So, without further weak analogy, I give you...
The Twitter Pangram Challenge!
It all started with
mactavish linking to this from her Twitter-stream. That prompted me to respond with this. And that got me to thinking, which is rarely a good thing. So here's the challenge:
- Familiarize yourself with pangrams, if you aren't already. And forget about using the "quick brown fox" one, this is about original thought.
- Write one of your own. It needs to be a complete sentence, with clear thought. And grammatically correct, please. Dropping articles is annoying. And for goodness' sake, none of that silly text-speak, even if you do normally use it for Twitter.
- If the sentence doesn't use the word "pangram", make a follow-up tweet that refers to it by its perma-link URL.
- Whichever one actually contains "pangram", preface it with a "#", like "#pangram". This is known as a "hashtag" in Twitter-ese, and using it makes it easy for others to track people who are giving this a go. (See also, http://hashtags.org/.)
- The goal is to be as short as possible within the normal 140-character Twitter text-box limitation. All punctuation counts, of course, except for the hash-tag if your pangram sentence itself contains "#pangram" (err, that is, the word counts, but not the hash). The pangram
mactavish linked to was 141 characters. Mine was 118 (I'll be re-tweeting it with the hash-tag when I finish writing this). - Bonus consideration for referring to either or both of "Twitter" and/or "pangram".
- Multiple and or revised entries encouraged.
- I have no real prize to offer. I'm not even employed right now. But it's Friday and I have oodles of spare time on my hands.
Go forth now and pangram like there's no tomorrow. Or something. Feel free to respond here if I don't already follow you on Twitter (but I will be using the watch feature to keep an eye on them). And by all means, spread this far and wide, here on LJ, on your own Twitter stream, etc.