Another major influence in the Campag vocabulary and artwork is Nadsat, coined by Anthony Burgess in the book A Clockwork Orange.
He is best known for his performance as Georgie, one of the droogs in Stanley Kubrick's controversial film A Clockwork Orange (1971).
"Moog Droog" is an ironic anglicised spelling of the Welsh phrase mwg drwg ("bad smoke"), slang for marijuana, making a pun on the Moog synthesizer (and/or its inventor) and the slang word "droog" (based on the Russian for "friend") from A Clockwork Orange.
In A Clockwork Orange, Alex's interrogators describe the source of his argot as "subliminal penetration."
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Nadsat is a mode of speech used by the nadsat, members of the teen subculture in the novel A Clockwork Orange.
The odd spelling reflects Goodman's idea of a future language similar to A Clockwork Orange
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