Anyone else here speak Nadsat?

[Ifitaintbroke]

All on my oddy-knocky it seems...

 

[Debbie292d]

I had to look that up. Pretty cool! I listen to interpreters all day long doing transcription though so I hear enough foreign languages.

 

[BDutch]

Had to look it up too.

Nadsat was an imaginary dialect invented by Anthony Burgess for his dystopian Science Fiction novel A Clockwork Orange.

Youth gangs in A Clockwork Orange speak Nadsat whilst they are rampaging in the streets.

Does this tell us something about your character or your life Ifitantbroke?

 

[Ifitaintbroke]

Had to look it up too.


Does this tell us something about your character or your life Ifitantbroke?

No. Just shows I've spent way too much time in books! I usually read a book twice, occasionally three times.

 

[Ifitaintbroke]

Had to look it up too.


Does this tell us something about your character or your life Ifitantbroke?

There aren't any streets to rampage thru around here anyway. Guess I could rampage around in the woods.