loan words

[Kim Braithwaite]

Take a look at the Wikipedia entry Nadsat: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nadsat and the link to the Lexicon there.

In my own communication with colleagues who use Russian I also very often 
embed Russian words in my English text for, ahem, jocular effect. One of my 
concoctions is Russo-French "spassy beaucoup." Others may have concocted it 
too, I suppose.

When "A Clockwork Orange" came out in 1962, the reviewer in Newsweek (or was 
it Time?) marveled at Burgess's colorful slang inventions but failed utterly 
to realize they came from Russian, and apparently never figured out the 
meaning of some of them.

It is also amusing to note the great numbers of English words which, 
according to Russian slang dictionaries I have browsed in and some articles 
I have translated, have become quite common in youth and hippie slang. Not a 
real counterpart to "Clockwork Orange," I suppose, but still amusing. E.g., 
фазер for "father," etc.....

Kim etc.....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Роман Равве" <roman_kiev at MAIL.RU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:52 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] loan words


> Is there in English language any Russian words like in Anthony Burgess
> "Clockwork Orange"? Or it was just something artistic?
>
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> Sincerely,
> Ravve Roman
> icq 234326512
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