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6 unusual facts about Nadsat


Campag Velocet

Another major influence in the Campag vocabulary and artwork is Nadsat, coined by Anthony Burgess in the book A Clockwork Orange.

James Marcus

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

"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.

Nadsat

In A Clockwork Orange, Alex's interrogators describe the source of his argot as "subliminal penetration."

Nadsat is a mode of speech used by the nadsat, members of the teen subculture in the novel A Clockwork Orange.

The Bilestoad

The odd spelling reflects Goodman's idea of a future language similar to A Clockwork Orange's Nadsat in which English has been modified by the borrowing of foreign words.


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