"The nanzies and nurzies and the little showhices"
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @BootlegGirl
I liked Nadsat bc it was thought out to a similar degree, right down to making dark bilingual puns
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like "horrorshow" from "khorosho" for their dark idea of "awesome" or "cool"
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it'd actually be fun to try to come up with a convincing Mandarin-based Nadsat-style slang
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like my headcanon is Firefly using "sly" to mean "gay" is a corruption of "shuai" (handsome) from Mandarin
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Replying to @adrienneleigh @BootlegGirl
Burgess gave a Tolkien-style translation guide where he said if Clockwork Orange
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were translated into Russian they should make up English slang words for Nadsat to keep the same effect
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I don't think anyone did so though
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