Speaking Welsh (Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions))
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:47:44AM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > And possibly some welsh... The welsh word "drwg" (pronounced the english > way is "droog") and means 'Bad, naughty, evil, wicked' etc. Anthony Burgess spoke fluent Welsh (his first wife was Welsh), so I'd have thought that was quite likely. .robin. -- Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!
Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)
> Isn't it a pidgin mix of Russian and English? And possibly some welsh... The welsh word "drwg" (pronounced the english way is "droog") and means 'Bad, naughty, evil, wicked' etc.
Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Simon Wistow wrote: > Dave Cross wrote: > > > The language spoken by the droogs in 'A Clockwork Orange'. > > Isn't it a pidgin mix of Russian and English? It is a mix of schoolboy slang (from soem school that Burgess went to, cos I sure didn't speak like that at school, probably one of those public shcools or summit), ryhming slang (not cockney), misc slang from all over the place, malay & malay slang, olde english and pidgin russian. see (the horribly laid out and currently being redesigned) http://droogs.org/lit/ for some interesting links on ACO, Nadsat and Artificial languages. A. -- http://termisoc.org/~betty"> Betty @ termisoc.org "As a youngster Fred fought sea battles on the village pond using a complex system of signals he devised that was later adopted by the Royal Navy. " (this email has nothing to do with any organisation except me)
Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)
Dave Cross wrote: > The language spoken by the droogs in 'A Clockwork Orange'. Isn't it a pidgin mix of Russian and English?
RE: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)
Dave wrote: > > does lingua::nadsat exist yet? or anything along those lines? > > Er, what's nadsat? > The language spoken by the droogs in 'A Clockwork Orange'. > Dave... > [who got the video for xmas and hasn't got round to watching it yet] The film's pretty good, but what a soundtrack! Walter/Wendy Carlos Moog mayhem! Matt Freake
Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)
At Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:50:57 +0100, Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Trevena wrote: > > does lingua::nadsat exist yet? or anything along those lines? > > Er, what's nadsat? The language spoken by the droogs in 'A Clockwork Orange'. Dave... [who got the video for xmas and hasn't got round to watching it yet]
Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)
Aaron Trevena wrote: > does lingua::nadsat exist yet? or anything along those lines? Er, what's nadsat? Cheers, Philip
Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:51:38PM +, Aaron Trevena wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Andy Wardley wrote: > > > On Jan 15, 4:24pm, Robin Houston wrote: > > > Lingua::Romana::Perligata :-) > > > > Conway-san, your programming challenge for this week is: > > > >Lingua::Nihon::Perldes > > > > (but with an English <-> Japanese translation interface for those of > > us who didn't last out the Japanese classes) > > > > does lingua::nadsat exist yet? or anything along those lines? Never mind all that. Does anyone speak enough (I think) Klingon to understand what the status of the Lingua::tlhIngan::yIghun module is (see http://yetanother.org/damian/projects.html)??? dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ I drink to my coming cirrhosis... - Charles Aznavour
Re: Speaking Japanese (Re: Access Control Lists and Functions)
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Andy Wardley wrote: > On Jan 15, 4:24pm, Robin Houston wrote: > > Lingua::Romana::Perligata :-) > > Conway-san, your programming challenge for this week is: > >Lingua::Nihon::Perldes > > (but with an English <-> Japanese translation interface for those of > us who didn't last out the Japanese classes) > does lingua::nadsat exist yet? or anything along those lines? might work on it if doesn't already exist - along with all the other stuff.. A. -- http://termisoc.org/~betty"> Betty @ termisoc.org "As a youngster Fred fought sea battles on the village pond using a complex system of signals he devised that was later adopted by the Royal Navy. " (this email has nothing to do with any organisation except me)
