User talk:LearningKnight

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Quick brown fox

You added the following sentence to The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog:

The phrase was also preferrable to many others since it describes a neutral, bland event which is unlikely to offend anyone.

I'm wondering, do you have some source for this information or is it just a "guess"? - dcljr (talk) 17:43, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You said:Note that I wasn't making a specific statement in regards to a *specific*, documented decision that you can point to. It is just a very simple statement made on basic marketing principles, meant to modestly educate the reader so that they can understand the coporate standpoint that Microsoft was coming from.

Oh, so you're referring to Microsoft's decisions to use it for their rand() function? If so, then you should move it to that paragraph of the article. (After all, Microsoft certainly wasn't the originator of the phrase.) Still, from what you say above, it still seems more like an inference than a verifiable fact. I won't remove it, however. (I'll let someone else do that.<g>) - dcljr (talk) 00:31, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]