"The fawn jumps over a big dozy lax quack."

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"The fawn jumps over a big dozy lax quack."

Are the adjectives 'big', 'dozy' and 'lax' written in the right order?
 
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It looks OK. What's a big dozy lax quack?
 

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It means a big sleepy relaxed charlatan
 

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It can also means a big, drowsy and lazy, and relaxed unqualified veterinary.
 

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It's not unqualified veterinary. Its unqualified veterinarian
 

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"The fawn jumps over a big, dozy, lax quack."

Are the adjectives 'big', 'dozy' and 'lax' written in the right order?

It means a big, sleepy, relaxed charlatan.

It can also [STRIKE]means[/STRIKE] mean a big, drowsy, [STRIKE]and[/STRIKE] lazy, and relaxed unqualified [STRIKE]veterinary[/STRIKE] veterinarian.

It's not "unqualified veterinary". It's "unqualified veterinarian".

See above. You need to work on your punctuation.
 

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It looks OK. What's a big dozy lax quack?

It's a big, sleepy, relaxed charlatan.

(The question tells you what form the answer should take.)
 

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You should mention that you're obsessed with creating pangrams, lest visitors to the forum think they've been sucked into the Twilight Zone.
 
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Yes, but the sentence seems strained even by pangram standards, and the repetition of a is clumsy and where is i? Couldn't you squeeze quick in there?
 

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