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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). Nadsat was also used in Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of the book.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nadsat Created byAnthony Burgess Date1962 Setting and usageA Clockwork Orange (novel and film) Purpose Constructed languages Artistic languages Fictional languages Nadsat Writing system Latin script Language codes ISO 639-3None (mis) GlottologNone IETFart-x-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.[1] The name comes from…

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