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And suddenly I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones, and that the omny ones use, like, inspiration and what Bog sends.

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OfflineFriend · 22-25
Is this from a movie ?
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@OfflineFriend The one I was watching last night.
OfflineFriend · 22-25
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@OfflineFriend The characters speak in a type of slang called "Nadsat" which makes it hard to understand if you don't know what the words mean. For example, "gloopy" means dumb or stupid, and "omny" means smart. "Bog" is supposed to be God, and "viddy" is a verb which means to see, either literally as in see with your eyes or figuratively like see something in your mind, to realize something.
OfflineFriend · 22-25
@BlueMetalChick I viddy with my eye someone cool ?
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@OfflineFriend There you go! You're a quick learner.

Nadsat is a bizarre combination of cockney British words and Russian words. The British part makes sense because the author of the book, Anthony Burgess, was from England and the story is set in London. I have no idea how Russian got in there but it did. One of the most common words in the book and subsequently the movie is "droog", which means friend or buddy, and that's taken directly from the Russian word [i]друг[/i] which is pronoued as "druhg." They also refer to blood as "krovvie" which comes from the Russian word for blood, pronounced as "krov."
OfflineFriend · 22-25
@BlueMetalChick ja viddy with my eye a tovarishch