Kerry wrote:
"I also remember when I first started reading White Jazz that
I couldn't make sense of the thing until I read enough to get
into Ellroy's cadence and slang. I had to learn his grammar
as I went, to some extent."
A pretty extreme case of this is Anthony Burgess's A
Clockwork Orange, where he made up a polyglot language. I
haven't read it, but isn't Hoban's Ridley Walker also
supposed to be like that. Jabberwocky?
Mark
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