His use of Nadsat was essentially pragmatic ; he needed his narrator to have a unique voice that would remain ageless while reinforcing Alex's indifference to his society's norms, and to suggest that youth subculture existed independently of the rest of society.

Along with contemporaries Heaven 17, Clock DVA's name was inspired by the Russian-influenced Nadsat of Anthony Burgess ' A Clockwork Orange ; " dva " is the Russian word for " two ".

Burgess experiments with language, writing in a Russian-influenced argot called " Nadsat " used by the younger characters and the anti-hero in his first-person narration.

Nadsat is a fictional register or argot used by the teenagers in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange.

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

At least one translation of Burgess ' book into Russian solved the problem of how to illustrate the Nadsat words — by using transliterated, slang English words in places where Burgess used Russian ones.

Another translation used the original English spelling of Nadsat terms.

Nadsat slang from A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess ).

In 1988, Die Toten Hosen released the LP Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau ( A little bit of horrorshow-" horrorshow " is Nadsat for " ok ", coming from the Russian word хорошо ( khorosho ( good ))) referring to the phrase in A Clockwork Orange ), which featured the song Hier kommt Alex " ( referring to the movie A Clockwork Orange based on the book by Anthony Burgess ); in 1988, Bernd Schadewald produced a German theatre version of the book, in which the band performed as actors and musicians.

He speaks Nadsat, a teenage slang created by author Anthony Burgess.

The band's name originates from the Nadsat slang in the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, in which it means " milk " ( from the Russian word for milk, молоко ), actually the name of a milk drink that Alex and his " droogs " consume mixed with " drencrom ".

* Nadsat Dictionary Hyman, Stanley Edgar.

One reviewer noted that this book draws " on such well-known dystopias as A Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, and A Canticle for Leibowitz ", and " what is unique in Hoban's haunting vision of the future is his language " which is described as being similar to the Nadsat slang spoken in Anthony Burgess ' A Clockwork Orange.

" Alex's friends (" droogs " in the novel's Anglo-Russian slang, Nadsat ) are: Dim, a slow-witted bruiser who is the gang's muscle ; Georgie, an ambitious second-in-command ; and Pete, who mostly plays along as the droogs indulge their taste for ultra-violence.

Nadsat is basically English with some borrowed words from Russian.

Russian influences play the biggest role in Nadsat.

A further means of constructing Nadsat words is the employment of homophones.

For example, one Nadsat term which may seem like an English composition, horrorshow, actually stems from the Russian word for " good "; khorosho, which sounds similar to horrorshow.

* Gladsky, Rita K. " Schema Theory and Literary Texts: Anthony Burgess ' Nadsat ".

The term " Nazz " is also slang for " fool " in Nadsat.

Anthony Burgess ' novel A Clockwork Orange has a famous form of Runglish called Nadsat.

Devotchka in Nadsat means " girl ", which is itself derived from the Russian word ( девочка ) of the same meaning.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

`` You have every right to be '', I replied gravely in the Manu dialect, but my attention was fixed on Brassnose, the biggest and strongest of us.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home.

Imperial Aramaic was highly standardised ; its orthography was based more on historical roots than any spoken dialect and was inevitably influenced by Old Persian.

Schweitzer's home language was an Alsatian dialect of German.

The High German consonant shift is thought to have originated around the 5th century either in Alemannia or among the Lombards ; before that the dialect spoken by Alemannic tribes was little different from that of other West Germanic peoples.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

This very first generation of children created a new dialect that was to become the language of the nation.

Even when new settlers arrived, this new dialect was strong enough to deflect the influence of other patterns of speech.

Applesoft BASIC was a dialect of Microsoft BASIC supplied with the Apple II series of computers.

Also worth considering is that in the Lancashire dialect acorn was akran.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

A fifth guérandais dialect was spoken up to the beginning of the 20th century in the region of Guérande and Batz-sur-Mer.

The most common derivation provided in English dictionaries is from the Alpine French dialect pronunciation of the word Chrétien ("( a ) Christian "), which was a greeting there.

The language used by the Chaldeans was the Babylonian dialect of Akkadian, the same Semitic language, save for slight peculiarities in sound and in characters, as Assyrian Akkadian.

Dante was a great poet, the Societa Dantesca Italiana did great work in editing and publishing a usable and affordable text, but the Divine Comedy was certainly used by the newly unified Italian government ( see History of Italy ) to encourage a more homogeneous, Tuscan-influenced dialect for the whole peninsula ( see Italian language ).

The next window of opportunity for the predecessor of a Proto-Corsican was the administration of Corsica by Tuscany, then speaking the Tuscan dialect, an immediate predecessor of Italian.

The last historical possibility is that Proto-Corsican came from the Tuscan dialect of Pisa ; its period of Corsican administration, however, was relatively short.

On Maddalena archipelago the local dialect ( called Isulanu, Maddaleninu, Maddalenino ) was brought by fishermen and shepherds from Bonifacio during immigration in the 17th-18th centuries.

An opposite example is the case of Chinese, whose variations such as Mandarin and Cantonese are often called dialects and not languages, despite their mutual unintelligibility, because the word for them in Mandarin, 方言 fāngyán, was mistranslated as " dialect " because it meant " regional speech ".

In the 19th Century, the Tsarist Government of Russia claimed that Ukrainian was merely a dialect of Russian and not a language in its own right.