Re: CONLANG T-Shirt: "Your yahzick could be in this mesto."

Jeffrey Henning wrote:
> Alex uses mesto to mean "place".  It's one of the few mistakes I think
> Burgess made with Clockwork Orange, which is an excellent book, especially
> for artlangers.  When 'mesto' is introduced in this second sentence, you
> automatically grok that it means "bar", but you've grokked wrong -- he's
> uses it more generally than that later
Oh?  I automatically assumed "place", otherwise, wouldn't he have called
it a "Milkmesto"?

Incidentally, what is a milkbar?  I always assumed he made it up, but
then I saw the word in an Australian book, suggesting that they're real
places.

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