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Articles: A Clockwork of a Different Color |
Posted by
Pseudonym on Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 04:01 AM PST
Dear Randompeepers,
There was me, that is, Alex. Pseudonymus Alex II if you must click it, and my three nettys. that is, Devin, callei, and ickgirl. And we sat with our globoxen trying to vibe up some freshies to scrape the kruff from shmengland. We got to mouthywords about the way every unit seems to be typing the same britmash and not using anything fresh. The typeywords I share with you today is my wallhead banging over this lang which most of us was born into. The way the Britmash mouthywords and typeywords get mixed and ordified is paralapsing my waves. I’m vibing it’s better to toss it and bornagain. Now, I audy all you oldschool screamin “You can’t toss it! Britmash is the linkup for our waves. Lang changing would pull down The Chaos”. Well, my Nettys, I call beeshit. Breathe one, nettys, and audy up.
Now I click some of you yankers may vibe me not to exist, but I promise you my nettys, I am almost as real as you. For those units who may be a little dim, I can untangle that my makerman went by Alex as well. He was rather famous in his day, before I was made, but he is shrivelly now. Which leaves you with me. The fishhook, my nettys is that you yankers only viddyed up to chapter 20 if you viddyed at all, and I was not vibed up until chapter 21, which only the brittys viddyed. Now after you audy those typeywords, and the old suspicion and Fear has been dusted, we can consider introductions made and we can consider ourselves nettys and on with the storytime.
Units only use the britmash cause they don’t click what else to do. All the other units do it, so they do. They don’t click they can vibe up their own mouthywords and typeywords, cause they don’t vibe other units will click it. Well my nettys, I’m here to untangle for you that is a bunch of cal (to use my makerman’s oldschool typeys). Even units who have only ever audyed britmash, and even my maker’s nadsat mouthying droogs all can click me fine. Even you, my netty – unless you are dim – even you can click my typeys, though you’ve likely never audyed a unit like myself.
But don’t tangle this nettys. I don’t typey that you should just toss britmash and typey anything you can vibe up. If you sniv like “W3 WilL 0Wn j00r b0X3n, j00 7aM3r”, units will laugh at j00. You will sniv that they don’t click you or some cal, but they will not be laughing cause you tossed the britmash. They will be laughing cause you are using other unit’s typeywords. If you are not going to use the waves Bog dished you, then you deserve to be laughed at. So don’t be sniving to me when you ditto my typeys and units laugh. You need to vibe up your own.
So you audyed all this and clicked it. Now viddy. Viddy The Chaos? No? That’s proof nettys that using your own mouthywords and typeywords won’t bring down The Chaos. But you have to use your waves. If I dittoed another unit’s typeys, all this would be cal. If I didn’t check how the typeys were ordified, all this would be cal. There are things you can vibe up yourself, and things you need to leave be. I vibe that most of the units here click the difference. And I hope you click now that there’s no need to Fear The Chaos over just some stripey britmash.
Sincere,
Pseudonymus Alex II
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Re: A Clockwork of a Different Color
by DevilBunny (land_of_nod@poczta.onet.pl)
on Jun 27, 2002 - 07:36 AM
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Man, you'd make Anthony Burgess proud.
But write it all again in some human language...;-)
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Re: A Clockwork of a Different Color
by pAris (dparis@columbus.rr.com)
on Jun 27, 2002 - 06:06 PM
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It is a human language of sorts - part Russian, part English, some other things thrown in. Aye, I viddy well, me droog. Real horrorshow.
Of course it's ironic using Nadsat (someone else's words, for Bog's sake) to bitch about people stealing people's words....don't ya think? It's like rain on your wedding day if you were marrying a turkey who was always looking up and drowned in said rain.....It's like 10 thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife to slit your own wrists so you never have to hear Alainis Morrisette again.....
Speaking of marriage and being a turkey, I have an announcement - the lovely Kira and I have set a date - this Halloween we're to wed. We've been seeing each other for a few years and it'll be two years that we've been engaged now, so....oh well.
I'm sorry, boys - you can all still lust after her though, since I don't believe in being borish....
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Re: A Clockwork of a Different Color
by MorteAscendo on Jun 27, 2002 - 08:47 PM
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I have no idea what in the hell you where talking about...and did you mention my unit??
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Re: A Clockwork of a Different Color
by pAris (dparis@columbus.rr.com)
on Jun 27, 2002 - 10:20 PM
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uh...yes...thank you....yes, but it's really up to her...you're right...we're talking about A Clockwork Orange...and of course I was.
Did I answer those in the right order?
I know - I actually really appreciated the post, but had to put my two cents in, and you have to admit the spirit or Nadsat is definitely there.
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Re: A Clockwork of a Different Color
by Monolycus on Sep 16, 2002 - 03:25 PM
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I was re-reading "A Clockwork Orange" for the book club, and just had to check out this wonderful post again! It is written a little more densely than Burgess would have (he used the word "see" about as often as "viddy"), but Burgess was juggling at least two other dialects in addition to Nadsat (the one used by the two preteenies in the record store and at least one other used by the older guys in the Staja) in addition to the "standard" English used by the authorities. Still, this post is very, very truly inspired and extraordinarily well executed.
Raises an interesting point, too. How far can the language be manipulated before it loses meaning, a la Orwell's Newspeak? The point of Newspeak is to give the impression of communication without actually saying anything (I'm reminded of the "WHAZZUUUUUUP?" series of commercials). Pseudonym has demonstrated remarkably well that the language has a great deal of plasticity to it, so at what point do we begin sacrificing memes for sounds?
~Monolycus.
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