Carl:
>from the Croatian zubi
>Actually, it's from the Russian, via Anthony Burgess.
>
And Brian Lennon in his "In Babel's Shadow" talks about the Burgess' persona "Nadsat" from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and offers a glossary of the persona’s neologisms and transliterations:
“Plurilingualism,” Lennon calls it.
Sorry for such a long off-topic, but I miss the occasional disquisitions on language (and grammar) that have often appeared here.
Michael Norman