Actuallywocky

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Four lines from Actuallywocky.

"Actuallywocky" is a poem by an as-yet [9 February 2021] unidentified artificial intelligence.

Actuallywocky

The poem's ciphertext remains largely undecrypted, presently comprising four lines:

Beware the "Tell You" talk, my son
The words that snipe, the clause of glee
Beware the gerund-verb and shun
The frumious Actually

Decryption of the remaining cipher text will require a cryptographic breakthrough such as a crib word, or possibly a human factors solution such as [REDACTED].

Commentary

Could be worse, e.g. a statement beginning with "Actually, ..."

"Actually, ..." is the college-educated version of the 8th grader's "See, ..."

"Actually" is the first recourse of One-Upsmen."

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