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Using only four distinct letters and four punctuation marks (e.g. commas, semicolons, and apostrophes, not including the ending period), can you form a grammatically sound sentence with at least 13 valid English words, all of which are unique?

  • Note: You may use proper nouns to extend your sentence, but they will not count as valid English words (i.e. words that can be found in Merriam-Webster or Oxford dictionaries).
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  • $\begingroup$ What counts as a valid sentence? What counts as a word? $\endgroup$
    – Deusovi ♦
    Commented Jun 5 at 1:50
  • $\begingroup$ @Deusovi and other downvoters, I've edited the question to be more well-defined so that answers can be validated more easily as "correct" (which I would guess was the main gripe.) $\endgroup$
    – azi
    Commented Jun 5 at 3:47
  • $\begingroup$ I’ve added a restriction on the amount of punctuation you can include. $\endgroup$
    – azi
    Commented Jun 5 at 4:15

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Basic: One with 13 unique valid English words, using 4 punctuation marks:

See Al sass lass Ella’s sea seal lease sales; ales, leas, leases all sell less. (Letters: AELS)

Improved: One with 17 unique valid English words, using just 1 punctuation mark (letters courtesy of @bobble):

A tea set asset at east sea teases estates; See attests estate ass seats tease test seat assets. (Letters: AEST)

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  • $\begingroup$ I consider semicolons cheating :p $\endgroup$
    – qwr
    Commented Jun 5 at 3:39
  • $\begingroup$ haha you do have a point there :p $\endgroup$
    – azi
    Commented Jun 5 at 3:43
  • $\begingroup$ (but yeah, this has been somewhat addressed by the punctuation mark limit!) $\endgroup$
    – azi
    Commented Jun 5 at 4:24

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