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The contemporary surfie [1962] at least partially replaces surfer in its turn though it invokes the image of the “monosyllabic cretin” who speaks two words of English-- yeah and man --streaks his hair with Clairol, and, worst of all, drinks milk.
In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese.
Because centered dots are used to mark syllable breaks--a useful practice abandoned in an access of sheer stupidity by the editors of the Collins , this does not present problems except in monosyllabic words, like lilt, till , and ill.
But Schickel does seem to see him as some sort of Delphic oracle, and his attempts to translate the man's monosyllabic pronouncements make for hilarity: " 'Women,' Clint says, a sort of sad befuddlement in his tone, 'always want to know what you're thinking.
"The Idea of Order" culminates in another highly monosyllabic line: "And when she sang, the sea,/ Whatever self it had, became the self/ that was her song, for she was the maker."