A Clockwork Orange

November 24, 2009

Today

1. A Clockwork Orange Quiz2. ACWO introduction3. Jeopardy Quotation Selection

Next Few Classes

November 24: ACWO and language November 26: ACWO and free will/choice December 1: ACWO and Kubrick December 3: ACWO “Modern Youth”

Conference December 8: Final Exam Jeopardy December 10: Final Exam Jeopardy

Anthony Burgess

1917-1993 Linguist

Anthony Burgess

Autobiography within novel Wife Tumour

Nadsat (= teenage)

English Shakespeare

English Russian Slang

Why can we still understand this? Jabberwocky Nouns, verbs, adjectives

Why Nadsat?

Not dated Brainwashing Distinguishing gang members

7 Jail scene

Distinguishing adults from teens Gaining entrance for B&E jobs

Study: shows people can understand it from context

Burgess a linguist

Others can’t understand

29-30 76 82 138-139

Argot Cant (63-64) 66 (new kid)

Language Change

List 2 terms you use now that signify a certain age

List 2 terms that would date someone now (eg from movie or music)

Nadsat (=teenage)

Cockney Apples ‘n pears = stairs Butcher’s hook = look Cutter Polly

Nadsat (=teenage)

Russian Groodies (“grud”) Biblio (“biblioteka”) Horrorshow (“kharasho”) Britva (“britva”)

Nadsat

Slang Cancers Sinny

“Baby talk” Baddiwad Eggiweg Jammiwam Skolliwoll Steaky Wake

Nadsat

Portmanteau (eg “smog”) Chumble (chatter + mumble) Crark (crow + bark) Skriking (scratch + strike)

Malchicks will be Malchicks My gloopy droogs rabbit at a bolshy pop disc store. Every day they fill their carmans with plenty of crasted pretty polly and vonny cancers, smecking all the time. The baddiwadest droog has a horrorshow goloss, always warbling for the sharps each and every nochy. It all ended, though, when the millicents skvatted him down by the biblio. They tolchocked him in his gulliver, and now he’s their plenny. You can viddy all this in the latest gazetta.

Boys will be boys My stupid friends work at a big record store. Every day they fill their pockets with plenty of stolen money and smelly cigarettes, laughing all the time. The worst friend has a good voice, always singing for the women each and every night. It all ended, though, when the police grabbed him down by the library. They hit him in his head, and now he’s their prisoner. You can see all this in the latest newspaper.

Jeopardy Selections

Group 1: “Cathedral” Group 2: “Araby” Group 3: “A Rose for Emily” Group 4: “Boys and Girls” Group 5: “A&P” Group 6: “The Things They Carried” Group 7: “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

Look at your group’s text; write down three quotations