Nadsat - Conlang Profile	Advanced
Language Name Nadsat Language Author Anthony Burgess Year Began 1961 Site Nadsat Broken Link No Site Language English Language Type international auxiliary language Editorial Nadsat is the language (slang, actually) used by gangs of violent English teenagers in the now-classic book and movie A Clockwork Orange. This English slang serves a serious purpose in the book, which is to help keep the violence of the protagonist (who rapes, murders and steals) from becoming unbearable to the reader. Nadsat is the best slang ever invented, with over 300 words, many of them cleverly derived from Russian (e.g, Russian nadsat, "-teen"). Uniqueness The most successful English slang, making A Clockwork Orange a literary masterpiece. Language Sources Russian, Cockney Rhyming Slang and British schoolboy slang, with bits of Malay, Dutch, Gypsy, French, Polish, German and Arabic. Design Principles To be a slang of the future, constructed as a real slang but in such way to never appear dated and never go out of style like the ever changing slang in the English language. Conculture Noun Phrase British teens in the future Quotation And they skazzed odin to another, "Itty to, let us make bricks, and burn them dobby." And they had brick for stone, and cal they had for mortar. Dictionary Yes Etymologies Yes Grammar No Sample Texts No Unique Script No Primer No Babel Text No Lexicon Size 300 Submitted By NA Updated By Marq Thompson Date Edited Sunday, May 02, 2004 Description Of Update Replaced the broken link with a working one. Date To Headline Wednesday, May 05, 2004 < Nabel  Nadsat  Naffarin >
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