I grew up in this town and was lucky enough to meet the last 3 original speakers of Boontling. They used to put on a performance at the local variety show all in the language!! And I also thought a payphone was called a Buckey Walter when I was younger. LOL
So far as I can tell, they haven't changed the grammar a bit, so I would call this a dialect, not a language. But it's great fun and everyone seems to enjoy it.
Yer gonna love it. Your best chance of harpin Boontling is to hang out with an old-timer. One of the pleasures of making the video was to record what may be a dying lingo, or better, help revive interest in it. So glad you liked our work. jules and effin
My brother lives in Lautonville and loves Boonville. He has tried to get me to go up for the beer festival several times but I've never made it. I live in New Orleans. This language has fascinated me ever since I heard of it from Anderson Valley beer bottles. Great video. Very informative and entertaining. Can't wait to get out there and hear it spoken myself!
My dad used to take me boshin' between Boont and Uke as a kid and my grandpa (Sharkey) and the other old timers (almost all relatives) would harp plenty of Boont; fond memories :-) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boontling
No, not really. Coke and cessna are actual brand names, boontling is a language using other words in place of other words, or making up words all together.
simply amazing the dialects that pop up in history. i love it! i just discovered this because i purchased some Anderson Valley brews from my local spec's in Texas!
Thanks, WillitsGal. Glad you like it. Now, Hopland. It's there because "Deekon" says that Boontling started with the women working in the hops fields. And how did Hopland get its name? Exactly. Since you're from the region, you might enjoy our other video on Mendocino, Trains & Tango. We're now working on two, both historical, about Napa City. They're all at youtube/julesolder.
I have always found Boontling interesting since I first visited the Anderson Valley Brewing Company in the 1990s. The Boont Amber ale was bahl hornin', indeed. However, Boonville is not exclusive among small, somewhat isolated, California communities having their own lingo. Another one is Avalon, on Santa Catalina Island, 26 miles off the coast. The locals who live on the island have their own lingo also. I believe it's so they can communicate without "mainlanders" (tourists) understanding. I knew someone who moved there, and I spent a week over there partying with the locals. It was a linguistically different and educational experience! The lingo is nowhere near as developed as Boontling, and it's much more subtle, it sounds like words in English, but not quite. Since nearly everyone who lives and works there is wholly dependent on tourist business to survive, I guess they find it advantageous to have their own code language.
Great to document this.
Watching this with a horn of zeese.... I went to boarding school there LOL! That was BALLS! 😎
This is incredible
I grew up in this town and was lucky enough to meet the last 3 original speakers of Boontling. They used to put on a performance at the local variety show all in the language!! And I also thought a payphone was called a Buckey Walter when I was younger. LOL
So far as I can tell, they haven't changed the grammar a bit, so I would call this a dialect, not a language. But it's great fun and everyone seems to enjoy it.
Yer gonna love it.
Your best chance of harpin Boontling is to hang out with an old-timer. One of the pleasures of making the video was to record what may be a dying lingo, or better, help revive interest in it.
So glad you liked our work.
jules and effin
My brother lives in Lautonville and loves Boonville. He has tried to get me to go up for the beer festival several times but I've never made it. I live in New Orleans. This language has fascinated me ever since I heard of it from Anderson Valley beer bottles. Great video. Very informative and entertaining. Can't wait to get out there and hear it spoken myself!
So basically like Cockney Rhyming Slang only without the rhyming.
I find this hard to yardle my doodle to this
This reminds me of the Star Trek TNG episode "Darmok." "Darmok and Gilad at Tinagra."
I'm still gobsmacked that this impossibly small place could create ad maintain its own language/lingo for well over a century.
jules
That is one burlapped-up language.
I literally going the to be the understand what you said.
I love this. I've always been fascinated by the phenomenon of Boontling.
It's like the Poem Jabberwockey.
You know Boonville has its own buildings- no need to show Hopland's buildings for reference
That Saloon in Hopland is closed now.
My dad used to take me boshin' between Boont and Uke as a kid and my grandpa (Sharkey) and the other old timers (almost all relatives) would harp plenty of Boont; fond memories :-) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boontling
this is very similar to people calling every small aircraft a "Cessna" or every soft drink a "Coke".
No, not really. Coke and cessna are actual brand names, boontling is a language using other words in place of other words, or making up words all together.
I'm guessing this is the town Les Claypool wrote "Boonville Stomp" after?
It is indeed!
simply amazing the dialects that pop up in history. i love it! i just discovered this because i purchased some Anderson Valley brews from my local spec's in Texas!
Thanks for this mini documentary! They make great brew in Boonville, I buy it from time to time
How is a town having their own language linguistically and anthropologically, impossible?
Balderdash brought me here
This very informitive so I know Bahl Hornin is "Good Drinking" Do they call it Horrin because vikings use to drink out of Horns?
This was such an interesting video thank you
Thanks, Breonna. I'm still hoping for a Boontling revival.
- jules
Thanks, WillitsGal. Glad you like it.
Now, Hopland. It's there because "Deekon" says that Boontling started with the women working in the hops fields. And how did Hopland get its name? Exactly.
Since you're from the region, you might enjoy our other video on Mendocino, Trains & Tango. We're now working on two, both historical, about Napa City.
They're all at youtube/julesolder.
I have always found Boontling interesting since I first visited the Anderson Valley Brewing Company in the 1990s. The Boont Amber ale was bahl hornin', indeed.
However, Boonville is not exclusive among small, somewhat isolated, California communities having their own lingo. Another one is Avalon, on Santa Catalina Island, 26 miles off the coast. The locals who live on the island have their own lingo also. I believe it's so they can communicate without "mainlanders" (tourists) understanding. I knew someone who moved there, and I spent a week over there partying with the locals. It was a linguistically different and educational experience! The lingo is nowhere near as developed as Boontling, and it's much more subtle, it sounds like words in English, but not quite. Since nearly everyone who lives and works there is wholly dependent on tourist business to survive, I guess they find it advantageous to have their own code language.
Yes, and not just Vikings. (There's more in Charles Adams' book, BOONTLING: An American Lingo.)
Glad you liked the video. jules
@TwoCows23 LOL. I'v not an idea of what you just said! Wow, I found a non-mutially intelligible English dialect!
The girl at 1:22 is cute. She has that hometown natural beauty..
Viva la boont beer!
That's Laytonville, not Lautonville. Sorry.
Well, NOW yer harpin!
jules
Burlap those croppies!
You guys are not clever, or cute, we all know this isn't an South Pacific dialect in America
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drakegod84 Pure genius.