Nadsat

It's about rebellion and society and all that good stuff but it's also written in a completely bonkers style (the main characters all talk in this slang called "Nadsat" that's comprised, in part, of Russian words ... you'll need the glossary for this one).

WALL STREET FIGHTER - Business News and Money Tips for Men 2010

Now rediscovered in the archive, Burgess' screenplay is laced with a new words from the language, Nadsat, a melding of English and Russian, that the author gave his droogs in the original novel, published in 1962.

Anthony Burgess archive reveals vast body of previously unseen work 2011

Glossary of Nadsat Language Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and was a graduate of the University there.

Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

Nadsat, a Russified version of English, was meant to muffle the raw response we expect from pornography.

Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

Anthony Burgess did something similar with Nadsat in A Clockwork Orange – even going so far as to say his intention was to “brainwash” the reader into understanding the borrowed Russian terms much as the protagonist Alex was himself brainwashed not to inflict violence.

Mazel Tov « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2008

Now he's back, possibly on either rather more or rather less medication and calling himself YHN, posting in pigeon Nadsat at Droogie.com.

Archive 2007-05-20 2007

GLOSSARY: Bezoomny - mad; Privodeet/Privodivat - lead/leader; Malenky - little; Monkey - monkey; YHN - Your Humble Narrator; Nadsat - teenager, teen argot; Devotchka - girl; Poogy - frighten.

Archive 2007-05-20 2007

Don't speak Nadsat myself but have got a Russian O Level which is close enough.

Archive 2007-05-20 2007

A modern fictional example would be Nadsat, the largely Russian-derived teenage argot in Anthony Burgess 'A Clockwork Orange.

Doing the tell Ray Girvan 2004

A modern fictional example would be Nadsat, the largely Russian-derived teenage argot in Anthony Burgess 'A Clockwork Orange.

Archive 2004-09-01 Ray Girvan 2004