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What is the longest coherent and grammatically correct sentence you can write using the formula below?

 

1 Starting with a one-letter word to begin the sentence, increase each subsequent word by one letter until you reach your limit on how many words the sentence will contain.
2 Any numbers in the sentence must be spelled out completely.
3 Spelling counts.
4 Punctuation must be correct, but it is not words, it will not be counted as part of your word sequence.
5 Proper names of persons, places and things are allowed.
6 Uppercase and lowercase usage must be correct.
7 No abbreviations, acronyms, initials, or slang words are allowed.
8 Hyphenated words are counted separately as two words.
9 You may use any language you so desire, BUT, the entire sentence must be in that language. (It is understood that many languages, especially English, contain loan words from other languages, so those are acceptable. The intentional mixing of two or more languages in the same sentence, however, is not allowed.)
9 You may write as many separate sentences as you wish, just as long as each one follows these guidelines.
10 The sentence need not be logical.



Examples: 
I am not with those people stating contrary, arbitrary, ridiculous accusations!

A, an, and alms begin having similar auditory soundings, comparable linguistics inaccurately, automatically, adventurously notwithstanding.
 
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Posted - August 19, 2020
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  • 13277
    No.
      August 20, 2020 4:49 PM MDT
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  • 53524

     

      Coward. 



    Lol. 

    ~

      August 20, 2020 5:43 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    My answer is one more than you got from the entire rest of the AM community.
      August 20, 2020 6:23 PM MDT
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  • 53524

     

      And yet you chickened out. Hollow victory, mon frère.

      August 20, 2020 7:46 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Ah, but the fault lies not in the stars, but in ourselves. - Shakespeare
      August 20, 2020 8:10 PM MDT
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  • 53524

     

      If that’s a quote, shouldn’t it be in quotation marks?

      August 20, 2020 9:42 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Maybe, but JaiMe might think it rude and pompous of you to point that out. But hey, blue lives matter!
      August 20, 2020 10:02 PM MDT
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  • 3719
    Oh, that's a tough challenge there!

    It reminds me rather obliquely of a piece of "industrial folk humour" I encountered years ago, when the managerial fad for pretentious jargon rather than genuine technical or administrative terms was really starting.

    By "industrial folk humour" I mean anonymous cartoons or satirical writings that would appear from unknown sources and circulate rather like the samizdat in the USSR, but here lampooning managerial pretension. The example I have in mind was The SIMP Sentence.

    SIMP abbreviated something like "Simplified Integrated Modular Prose"... said its rubric. Below the instructions, on an A4 sheet printed in landscape style so they all fitted, were 4 blocks lettered A-D of 10 numbered, lengthy clauses of utter flummery. Those on Block A all started with a capital letter, those of Blocks A-C ended with a conjunction or preposition; Block D's all finished with a full-stop.

    To "play" you would think of a 4-digit number then select 4 clauses so, say, 1248 meant concatenate Block A Clause 1 with B2, C4 then D8.

    It  mattered not which 4 clauses you chose. As long as you kept the order, any set would thus create a long, grammatical and coherent sentence of very impressive but totally meaningless bumpf that would no doubt be thought Very Wise by the worst afflicted by Chronic Managementese.  
      November 12, 2020 3:23 PM MST
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