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[hyperzz]

[Scribe]

Distractions from such morose matters are welcome. I suspect the 3P aren't waiting in silence for a minute while they conduct their eevyl plans.

Not convinced it's the order of the words that's "odd" so much as the rhythm, but maybe that's what poems do. I ain't no poet.

If you take the number of syllables in each line, and turn that into a letter per line (e.g. "talk talk talk" = 3 = C), you get:

CQHECKBADDIBA

Meh. Probably random, unless anyone can think of a "Baddiba" ("bad ibba"?) and a reason why a Q would interrupt a perfectly good word...

[Edit much later] oops. that should be "CQHECIBADDIBA".

[Mindez]

[jonc]

notice also that "you" appears after "talk talk talk", and before "should be here" (the first and last words), suggesting that :

[Arkai]

[toongoon]

The running together of meanless and words jumps out at me.

I immediately see it as "meaning less word".

Fits also with "Hush"

Perhaps we need to drop every 3rd word (3 talks) to get the message?

I'll update if I get anything.

[the3musketeers]

The thing that jumped out to me was the "words have no meaning only sound"

Tried /meaninglesswords.mp3, .wav and .wma and nothing.

Then tried word meter to give dots an dashes in morse code, but haven't tried all computations of that.

Now working on phonetics.

Am I trying too hard?

[dontpanic42]

i saw it this morning and was reminded of the cognivia puzzle, maybe something in the background needs to be filled in?

[Mindez]

[James Siegesmund]

Keeping in mind that Aiko is a puzzle mimic, could she be mimicking Anna as a memorial? The poem refers to Anna as "The nurturer . . . of signification." From American Heritage dictionary: Signification n. 1. The established meaning of a word.

So, with that all in mind, I looked up a few of the words in the memorial. Here are the two interesting results:

Fleeting . . . 2. Nautical To alter the position of (tackle or rope, for example).

Dead adj . . . 5a. No longer in existence, use, or operation. . . . 13. Sports Out of play. Used of a ball. . . . adv. 1. Absolutely; altogether. 2. Directly; exactly.

Based on that definition of "fleeting," I'm wondering if there's an anagram here (which is a pun of Anna's name and therefore a good puzzle to pay tribute to the fallen linguist). It's too long to put into the anagram engines I know, though, and I stink at doing them manually.

On a different tangent (put this with the "missing space"), why put commas in the second line but not the first? Poetic license covers it, I suppose, but it seems odd, and usually odd language or punctuation from a Perplexian means there's a puzzle afoot. . .

[dburnt]

is there a possibility that the clue is not based on the words of the memorial? the poem says "words have no meaning only sound"...is there an auditory clue instead?

[ryandrew]

Tippy is the puzzle mimic, not Aiko. Aiko is the art based puzzle scribe.

I'm leaning more towards Aiko just liking strange grammar rather than there being a kloo here.

[filmguy1013]

[dburnt]

I tried listening to the words, thinking that the auditory was in how the words sound rather than read...for example "you" sounds like "U" which is a common abbreviation for a university (or academy).

Coincidentally, "meaninglesswords" is a user name on a website called "drowned in sound".

[psyche]

My twopennorth - it's a banana. It's an entirely appropriate poem, a very beautiful and well-written poem, and nothing in it seems out of place to me. No peculiar phrasing, no unusual grammar, nothing suspicious at all. It's a memorial book, and she's writing about the sadness of having only memorial words left in place of Anna, the lover of words, and the inadequacy of those words.

But hey, this is PXC, perhaps my puzzle brain just isn't as devious as Aiko's.