[SNIP]
>Did you all read the article Terence
Rafferty
>wrote in GQ criticizing the Library of America's
publication of the
>AMERICAN NOIR classics? I sort of hope most of you
don't really read GQ but
>this is a recent article that you should definitely
read if you can.
No, but I'd like to. Does _GQ_ have a web edition?
[SNIP]
>It's an interesting, gritty novel published not long
after the war with the
>weirdest thing ever - a glossary of the slang used in
the back. Does anyone
>know of an American counterpart to this? Has anyone
else ever done this?
There are two English-language texts I can think of: Anthony
Burgess's
_A Clockwork Orange_ has a glossary of the Nadsat 'dialect'
(idiolect?)
used in the novel. I believe that the North American edition
of Irving
Walsh's _Trainspotting_ has a glossary.
ED
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