Technodisobediant language


SOLARIS

Excerpt from Solaris Korrigert, (by Øyvind Rimbereid, 2001)
A language mixed of north-sea adjacent languages, set in a post-petrolium Norway


WAT vul aig bli
om du ku kreip fra
din vorld til uss?
SKEIMFULL, aig trur, ven
du kommen vid diner imago
ovfr oren tiim, tecn, airlife, 
all diner apocalyptsen
                                       skreik-
mare. OR din beauti draum! NE
wi er. NE diner ideo! DER
aig lefr, i 14.6, wi arbeiden
onli vid oren nanofingren,
dei er oren total novledg, wi arbeiden
so litl, 30 minutes a dag. AIG seer an
miner fingren, part af organic 14.6,
men veike, dei er som seagrass ...
SO ku aig begg din vorld,
begynning, start uss, 
up igen? KU det!
                    SKEIMFULL aig er. SO
                              wat
vul du bli
om wi ku kreip fra
uss til deg?

/

I natt dei i slammen 
arbeidar, miner greipmaskinar, 
dept undr bolgjerne
undr siddybridgen,
self-organising repairing hydropipes
vid deirs simpl 8-functionkroppar.
DEI er 123 stk., miner robot-
arbeidern. 123 x 8 x algoritm
                                    er deirs breyn.
                            DEIRS kollectiven
breyn er abstract
og exist onli millom dei,
som millom A og B
or som millon ein odder human og aig
                                    ven wi spiik
        DEI veit ne om 
kverodder. DEI veit
ne om deirs total systemarbeid, 
deirs kooperationen. 
DEI onli veit om seg self
og veit det onli i deirs intern, lukka feedback-
imago, ergo onli
som robot-existensen. 

/



POLARI

“Oh hello Mr Horne! How Bona to vada your dolly old eke!”

Who used it?
Mainly gay men, although also lesbians, female impersonators, theatre people, prostitutes and sea-queens (gay men in the merchant navy). It was not limited to gay men, however. Heterosexual people who were connected to the theatre also used it, and there are numerous cases of gay men teaching it to their straight friends. It is still used, albeit in a more limited way in theatrical circles or among older gay men.

ajax – next to
BMQ (black market queen) – closeted gay man, especially in the merchant navy.
bona – good
cod – awful
dish – anus/bum
dolly – pretty
drag – clothing
eek – face
Eine – London
feely – young
lally – leg
lattie – house
lily (law) – the police
naff – awful, tasteless
nanti – none, no, nothing, don’t, beware
omi – man
omi-palone – gay man
palone – woman
Polari – to talk, or the gay language itself
riah – hair
TBH – to be had
The Dilly – Piccadilly Circus, a popular hang-out for male prostitutes in London
trade – a sex partner
vada – to look