Re: Nadsat (was: Re: CONLANG T-Shirt: "Your yahzick...")

Brook Conner <nellardo@...> wrote:
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> So, Nadsat contains at least the following kinds of
> borrowings/neologisms/slang sources:
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> 1. Slavic borrowings, often with punny use of English. This seems to
> be the largest category.
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> 2. Repetitive cutsiness (eggiweg).
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> 3. Abbreviations. Perhaps "charlie" is one of these, too, as c for
> chaplain and the military letterals (alpha bravo charlie).
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> 4. Phrases in lieu of words.
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> 5. Non-standard naming.
    From chapter 6:

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roots are Slav.  Propaganda.  Subliminal penetration."

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             Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@himes.connix.com
             homepage: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm
        Gladilatian page: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/glad/lang.htm
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Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle
brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance =
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the air."                      - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse =
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