this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025
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this whole exercise is really meant to exist in schools. like, schools for young kids.
we're adults arguing about which nursery rhyme is cooler while forgetting that this isn't for us. it needs to be easily understood by children. that's why we use one with only short easy words.
even the sentence structure of the second one is complicated and hard for a child to remember.
i thought it was made to test typewriters.
looked it up,
it was made to help teachers teach students how to type on keyboards. my bad
Fair, though it's also used to show off fonts, and I'll use that second one from now on.
I used this to test my code