For the rest of the week I will only be posting in “Nadsat”!

(The fictional language used by the teenagers in Anthony Burgess‘ novel “A Clockwork Orange“.)

Yarbles to ya’! We’ll be needing pretty polly for moloko plus vellocet then a nochy of the old in and out with twenty to one grahzny devotchkas and lubbilubbing. Then slooshy to the zvook of dobby Roy Orbison warbles and sneety spatchka…

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(Next week! I’ll be transcribing Roy Orbison‘s classic song “In Dreams” into Fala dos arxiñas, the secret language of Spanish stonemasons!!!!!)


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