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Originally Posted by Lurker
Maybe what really defines it (if I'm right) is how extreme it is in its separation from everyday language and therefore people.
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Yeah. I think that was how Burgess used it. Wasn't it meant to be a hybrid of English-Russian though, suggesting some kind of post-nuclear world where the Russian language had become a part of our own. But from memory, you're right. It's only the droogs that actually use it. All the other characters speak in regular English.