Thread: Earp Speak!
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Old 06-08-2005, 02:34 PM
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Originally posted by Private I
Earpspeak always reminds me of struggling to read "A Clockwork Orange"...I get the main gist and I know the Russian words but it's still somewhat confusing...
Because Nadsat is largely an invented language by the late Anthony Burgess. Its roots come mostly from Russian, but there are a few bits of Cockney rhyming slang, as well as schoolboy-speak and other invented words.

Burgess never intended to add a Nadsat dictionary in his book; some later editions of A Clockwork Orange include one.

Here's a Nadsat dictionary: http://soomka.com/nadsat.html
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