> Am 07/14 03:22 And Rosta yscrifef:
>
> > Do you know of any Burgess conlang dabbling apart from Nadsat and
> > the Quest for Fire? I don't, neither in his published works nor in
> > his nonliterary life. Yet I may have overlooked or forgotten something.
> >
> What about the book _1985_ where he considers the nature of George
> Orwell's Newspeak. In the book he includes a novella of dystopia where
> language is reformed to become so verbose that meaning is lost.
Ah yes. So I see: _A note on Worker's English_. I can't browse it at
the moment because I have raptly discovered in its pages an utterly
forgotten trove of what seems to be golden locks of the hair of my
infant son, but I do remember Burgess in the preface quoting Orwell's
"Workers of the world unite: You have nothing to lose but your
aitches".
--And.