Wednesday, 7 June 2017

Anthony Burgess' lost dictionary of slang discovered

quote [ A Clockwork Orange author only managed entries for three letters and his abortive labours were thought to have gone for ever. ]

"What's it going to be then, eh?" Burgess' invented language, Nadsat, is basically a couple hundred words transliterated from Russian. Kubrick's movie includes very little of it. But as Burgess noted, "by the time you finish reading the novel, you've been brainwashed into a basic Russian vocabulary."

Real horrorshow news for us talky malchickiwicks.
[SFW] [literature] [+5 Interesting]
[by TM@9:33pmGMT]

Comments

rylex said @ 10:31pm GMT on 7th Jun
urban dictionary before there was one
captainstubing said @ 9:13am GMT on 8th Jun
If you can find a copy, you might enjoy this by Burgess:

https://www.amazon.com/Mouthful-Air-Language-Languages-Especially/dp/0688119352

He was a fucking linguist, don't you know?

Now to burn this Nadsat into my razzadook one more time.
Spork said @ 5:11pm GMT on 8th Jun
A cunning linguist, in fact.

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