{"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…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At long last, the final post in the series on Anthony Burgess’s invented languages has appeared on the Ponying the Slovos project page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This one takes us close to the end of Burgess’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 – the reprise of Elizabethan English in A Dead Man in Deptford <\/em>and the poetic pyrotechnics of Byrne <\/em>indicate.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, there’s some old favourite techniques herein, such as feral teen gangs using exotic and intriguing macaronic language forms, and there’s something quite new too – an invented language in an alt-history where Burgess doesn’t even give us so much as a single word (and doesn’t need to.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More over at PtS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At long last, the final post in the series on Anthony Burgess’s invented languages has appeared on the Ponying the Slovos project page. This one takes us close to the end of Burgess’s career, when his work took an autobiographical turn and he was less inclined to linguistic invention (though no less inventive as his … <\/p>\n

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