I myself was, for nearly six years, in such close touch with the Malay language that it affected my English and still affects my thinking. When I wro… - Anthony Burgess

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I myself was, for nearly six years, in such close touch with the Malay language that it affected my English and still affects my thinking. When I wrote a novel called A Clockwork Orange, no European reader saw that the Malay word for "man" – orang – was contained in the title (Malay students of English invariably write "orang squash"...