What’s the Longest 4th-Tone Sentence?

[ChouDoufu]

I wrote a blog post that you guys might find interesting. In it I describe some rules to game for writing 4th tone only sentences.

So what’s the Longest 4th-Tone Sentence you can write?

Rules

• your sentence should make sense
  
• single-4th-tone: 2 points (e.g. 做[zuo4: do]、是[shi4: is, be]、去[qu4: go])
  
• double-4th tones: 5 points (e.g. 睡觉[shui4jiao4: sleep]、电视[dian4shi4: television]、但是[dan4shi4: but]）
  
• triple-4th tones: 7 points (e.g. 数据库[shu4ju4ku: database])
  
• quad-4th-tones: 8 points (e.g.社会主义[she4hui4zhu4yi4: socialism]）
  
• 的: -3 points
  
• punctuation: -8 points (e.g. 、，：；… etc. Excludes ！。？)
  
• no quotes
  
• must be spoken only, i.e. 不 can’t be used because of tone sandhi (unless you somehow put it at the end of the sentence).
  

Post your sentences here, or tweet them to @lingomi #Long4thToneSentence http://t.co/9dpt7CA . Please include the hashtag and url!

You can find the official rules and some resources (like 4th tone word lists on the original blog post here.

Here's one of my favorites so far.

现在澳大利亚的动物世界注意睡觉、锻炼、运动的重要作用。(1x8 + 9×5 – 8×2 – 6 = 31 points)

[gougou]

主 zhu4

-8 points? ;)

[daofeishi]

四位澳大利亚会计报道，据业内数据，瑞士社会现在面对巨大技术困境，势必被迫雇印度教授创造政策促進教育制度现代化。

I believe that should give me 4*2 + 18*5 + 1*7 + 2*8 - 3*8 = 97 points. ^_^

Wouldn't it make more sense if the scoring system awarded more points for a quadruplet than 4 single fourth-tone words? Right now they are worth the same :blink:

[wedge]

Speaking Chinese would be so much easier if I knew ahead of time that every word in the sentence would be the same tone.

[cababunga]

How much are quint-4th-tone words are scored?

降肾上腺素 [jiàng shèn shàng xiàn sù] /noradrenalin/

:huh: