{"id":239,"date":"2021-04-22T19:26:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=239"},"modified":"2021-04-22T19:26:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:26:54","slug":"meanwhile-in-medieval-rat-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/22\/meanwhile-in-medieval-rat-nazis\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, in Medieval Rat-Nazis&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At long last, the final post in the series on Anthony Burgess&#8217;s invented languages has appeared <a href=\"https:\/\/ponyingtheslovos.coventry.domains\/invented-languages\/anthony-burgesss-other-invented-languages-part-8-macaronic-muggers-and-nazi-newspeak\/\">on the Ponying the Slovos project page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This one takes us close to the end of Burgess&#8217;s career, when his work took an autobiographical turn and he was less inclined to linguistic invention (though no less inventive as his last two works published during his life &#8211; the reprise of Elizabethan English in <em>A Dead Man in Deptford <\/em>and the poetic pyrotechnics of <em>Byrne <\/em>indicate.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, there&#8217;s some old favourite techniques herein, such as feral teen gangs using exotic and intriguing macaronic language forms, and there&#8217;s something quite new too &#8211; an invented language in an alt-history where Burgess doesn&#8217;t even give us so much as a single word (and doesn&#8217;t need to.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More <a href=\"https:\/\/ponyingtheslovos.coventry.domains\/invented-languages\/anthony-burgesss-other-invented-languages-part-8-macaronic-muggers-and-nazi-newspeak\/\">over at PtS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At long last, the final post in the series on Anthony Burgess&#8217;s invented languages has appeared on the Ponying the Slovos project page. This one takes us close to the end of Burgess&#8217;s career, when his work took an autobiographical turn and he was less inclined to linguistic invention (though no less inventive as his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/22\/meanwhile-in-medieval-rat-nazis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meanwhile, in Medieval Rat-Nazis&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[23,22,131,29,139,138],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invented-languages","tag-a-clockwork-orange","tag-anthony-burgess","tag-george-orwell","tag-invented-languages","tag-nazi","tag-newspeak"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnZAt-3R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}