138 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
the English language was created in this poem. The same goes for much of Shakespeare. If we used a filter method, we would have just deleted most of Shakespeare from the English language! Indeed half the poems in my anthology of English verse are destined for the waste paper basket due to some minor infraction of ‘the rules. If you want something that completely flummoxes my spelling checker here is the Loch Ness Monster Song by Scottish poet Edwin Morgan. I asked a Scottish friend whether Scottish spelling checkers fared any better and he assures me, no.
The Loch Ness Monster’s Song Sssnnnwhufffill? Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl?
Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl. Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl -
gm grawwwww erf grawf awfgm graw gm. Hovoplodok - doplodovok - plovodokot - doplodokosh? Splgraw fok fok splgrafhatchgabrlgabrl fok splfok!
Zgra kra gka fok!
Grof grawff gahf?
GombIl mbl bl -
blm plm, blm plm, blm plm, blp
Edwin Morgan
The Loch Ness Monster
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