learn russian, now! (1 Viewer)

[no_exit]

recently i made an excellent discovery. while watching a clockwork orange a few weeks ago, i realized something i had never seen before. all of the slang they use are actually russian words!
here are a few:
"horrorshow" is the way you pronounce the word for "good"
similarly:
droog= friend
devotchka=young girl
malenky=small

there are loads more... but i can't remember. cool, right?

 

[the strange guy]

There's greek in there too. Moloko, for example. It's also slang for wanker in Athens.

 

[no_exit]

moloko= milk in russian. sorry, no greek. just russian.

 

[the strange guy]

Maybe its the two of them. or maybe I'm wrong. i still wouldn't let a greek call me a moloko.

 

[no_exit]

in greek the slang word for wanker is pronounced malaka, not sure of the spelling though.

 

[the strange guy]

nerd

 

[W.]

yeh, i read all about that years ago when i was CO obsessed. There's an online glossary of "nadsat" someplace on the web - it's mostly just based on russian.
Good film.

 

[no_exit]

nerd

master of languages is more like it.

 

[Phil]

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/1974/nadsat.html

 

[spuded]

master of languages i think not ilene, with me having to tippex my way through your mistakes, well one mistake, the look of annoyance on your face when i told you that was priceless

 

[the strange guy]

Yeh. And use more 'u's and less 'z's.

 

[kollin]

Speaking of languages, does anybody know where or how I might go about learning Japanese? In book shops they only have dictionaries which are about as useful as.. they're not very useful. I'm planning on going to Tokyo next summer....

 

[Theseus Mock]

you can get a CD-ROM in Easons and other language shops. "Modern languages" on west land row and another language book shop on south frederick street in Dublin might be other places to find stuff. You'll find that speaking japanese is alot easier than reading & writing it. It's got 3 symbol systems which are all jointly used in sentences (katagana,hiragana & ganji). Ganji is a chinese symbol system in which every symbol has to be learnt, they're pretty much distinct. However, you can say stuff in katagana & hiragana which means the same thing in ganji.

You should also note, japanese people don't know how to read posh newspapers until they finish high-school!

 

[spuded]

can i come to Japan too, pretty please, strangely enuff last night literally just after i finsihed reading this post in work, i went downstairs and one of the clients said some word from the clockwork orange (for no reason!), whatever they call milk in that damn film, twas a bit of a weird moment though

 

[kollin]

Thank you ver mush Enhance, that was very informative. Tokyo here I come. All welcome!