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Nadsat

Nadsat is a fictional register or argot used by the teenage gang members in Anthony Burgess' dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. Burgess was a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of Russian-influenced English. The name comes from the Russian suffix equivalent of -teen as in thirteen (-надцать, -nad·tsat).…

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Teen subcultureAlexFirst-personVernacularCockney rhyming slang
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RegisterArgotAnthony BurgessA Clockwork OrangeLinguist
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Charlie ChaplinPretty PollyN.B.
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Created by
Anthony Burgess
Date
1962
Glottolog
None
IETF
art-x-nadsat
ISO 639-3
None (mis)
Purpose
Artistic languagesFictional languagesNadsat · Fictional languagesNadsat · Nadsat

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Nadsat

Nodes45
Edges44
Triples85
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.044444
Components1

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Nadsat

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related to General bibliography · 31
Nadsat → Aggeler, Anthony, Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess' Nadsat, Augustine, Being, Burgess, Confessions, English Studies, Geoffrey, Gladsky, Grove Weidenfeld, ISBN, Language Quarterly, Literary Texts, Meister, Nation, New York, OCLC, Paul
related to Description · 14
Nadsat → Alex, Burgess, Clockwork Orange, Cockney, Droog, English, German, He, It, King James Bible, Russian, Some, The, Welsh
related to Russian influences · 11
Nadsat → Another Russian, English, For, Gulliver, Gulliver's Travels, In, Most, One, Russian, Russian-influenced, Some
related to Function · 8
Nadsat → Alex's, American, Burgess, Clockwork Orange, He, His, However, In
related to Word derivation by common techniques · 6
Nadsat → English, English-slang, In Nadsat, Many, Nadsat's English, Some
Purpose · 3
Nadsat → Artistic languagesFictional languagesNadsat, Fictional languagesNadsat, Nadsat
is a · 3
Nadsat → fictional register or argot used by the teenage gang members in Anthony Burgess' dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange, mode of speech used by the nadsat, suffix of Russian numerals from 11 to 19
Created by · 1
Nadsat → Anthony Burgess
Date · 1
Nadsat → 1962
Glottolog · 1
Nadsat → None

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russian english words used burgess word slang also anthony book novel clockwork orange language meaning shortened example common fictional anglicized

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
NadsatCreated byAnthony Burgess1.00infobox
NadsatDate19621.00infobox
NadsatGlottologNone1.00infobox
NadsatIETFart-x-nadsat1.00infobox
NadsatISO 639-3None (mis)1.00infobox
NadsatPurposeArtistic languagesFictional languagesNadsat1.00infobox
NadsatPurposeFictional languagesNadsat1.00infobox
NadsatPurposeNadsat1.00infobox
NadsatSetting and usageA Clockwork Orange (novel and film)1.00infobox
NadsatWriting systemLatin script1.00infobox
Nadsatis afictional register or argot used by the teenage gang members in Anthony Burgess' dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange0.90text
Nadsatis amode of speech used by the nadsat0.90text
Nadsatis asuffix of Russian numerals from 11 to 190.90text

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