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I'm reminded of the first time I read novels like A Clockwork Orange, or Greg Bear's Queen of Angels, where the fictional world's slang is used, but not explain
by rosser 13y ago
I'm reminded of the first time I read novels like A Clockwork Orange, or Greg Bear's Queen of Angels, where the fictional world's slang is used, but not explained.
- happyscrappy 13y agoMy copy of A Clockwork Orange had a little dictionary of the slang at the end which was very amusing.
- xxxmadraxxx 13y agoThe youth slang in Clockwork Orange is derived from Russian. I always assumed that, the book having been written during the Cold War, this was the obvious 'alternative vision' to our own world were American cultural influence predominates amongst the young.
- pavel_lishin 13y agoYou should read Neal Stephenson's Anathem.