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2026-03-26 08:57 UTC
@HollieK72 I was going more for "hard work" and "deliberately impenetrable" but yeah you've got the idea!
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@HollieK72@mastodonapp.uk 2026-03-26 09:17
@zebulonmysterioso When I first read A Clockwork Orange I was quite alarmed at how much Nadsat I could understand, but then I did study Russian for a while. For most people, Nadsat is a barrier and will make the book very hard going, but the use of "Russian" words makes it very visceral and they hit hard. "Tolchoking a starry vek in the golova" feels much more violent than "Hitting an old man in the head."