carny is a form of "cant", which is a secret language shared among a closed group who wish to discuss things without being understood by those outside their group. many different subcultures have their own versions of cant for various reasons, and hip-hop naturally has its own. pig latin is probably the most famous example of a cant
my grandparents spoke carny and we figured it out. we knew all our gifts and family secrets. My mom and I spoke it in front of my kids, now my daughter and I speak it in front her kids
I'm hearing only half Carny and half English here. When I speak it, I speak full Carny. I break up everything. Picked it up from my mother, who got it from my grandfather, who worked carnivals.
I do too! My parents both knew it. My mom was from Chicago and my dad was from Buffalo, New York. My sisters and my kids all speak Carney & I break up every vowel, too. People look at us like, What?😂😂 I can’t believe they can’t understand us!❤
My dad did that, too. And I have been speaking Carny since i was a baby. My dad said you should only teach people you love and it is a secret.... uh oh!
I learned it from a friend's parents who worked at a carnival once. Their version used "ilz" in front of a vowel or between a consonant and a vowel sound. "Rat" would be "rilzat" and "handy" would be "hilzandy" or "hilzandilzy". My sister and I used it to speak without our parents understanding us and got quite fast at it . Usually it was just a game, but sometimes it came in very hilzandilzy.
Thy mom traveled with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the 50's. Us kids learned it from her. We spoke it as you described, not how the guy in the video is doing it. I can understand what he is saying but he is also mixing normal words in with his attempts at using the language.
Sounds a bit like what we used to call pig Latin. My friend told me that when I was at school the only phrase I can remember is ... igofi lovergov yuvergo Which translates as I love you. It’s similar in that you put consonants in front of Vowels
@@OliveMuleobviously carnivals are still around, but carnys dont really speak carny anymore. they just talk in plain english or whatever regular language they speak
Criminey. I don't understand a word of it and I can't figure it out. I am horrible with languages other than American English. I do, however, have impeccable grammar!
That’s lazy Carney. He only broke everything once. We always grew up breaking everything twice. The smart wrestling marks all figured out how to break everything once.
earzagrearzeed! This popped up in my suggested and I watched it because my grandfather worked for some big carnivals before he retired and he and his friends would always do it. He taught me a little bit but, when they got going talking fast ( or were a bit buzzed lol ) you couldn’t understand it. This reminds me more of the pig Latin we would speak in grade school when we thought we were outsmarting out teacher lol 😂. No offense to they guy in the vid or anything but I sincerely hope no one walks up to a carny and says that lol. They will for sure be laughed at.
The easiest way to learn this type of language is to use something you have memorized, like a rote prayer. Either something short like the Jesus prayer: “Leazord Jeazee-eazus Chreazist, heazave meazer-ceazy eazon meaze eaza seazin-neazer.” Or longer like the Lord’s Prayer (not writing that one out).
They used it on the new Blacklist show tonight. They used it two different ways: at the beginning they used: long ee, then iz, like glee-iz-ass for glass, or mee-iz ee for me, or tee-iz oo dee-iz ay for today. In the latter part of the show they used the simpler version done like: feez un for fun or fiz-un for fun. I'm thinking they did it that way in the latter part of the show because perhaps it was easier for the actors, or they just wanted to showcase both ways. I had only learned it the first way, from a relative of a relative who used to be a carny.
I carney’d only for a short time and only to keep from starving to death. The ‘lifers’ spoke carney and I wanted to learn for all of two seconds. No doubt it’s still in use today. All outlaws imho
Very interesting! I never heard of that language before. Of course I never worked in a carnival but I have gone to a carnival many times before. Learning something new everyday
I speezeak ceezarny and also another variation known as cayzarnay in which the “eez” sound is replaced with “ayz” and words with “ny” is said “nay” Eg. payzay mayze ayzanaythayzing
I don't know, if I were a carny I'd just speak whatever language I spoke, but with some spicy terms changed for the rubes. For example, words like cop, sucker, carny, money, stupid, rigged, and dangerous could be ball, doll, toy, popcorn, clean, white, and blue. So if you wanted to say "keep the troublemakers occupied while I hide the money, we don't need cops here" you might say "keep the blue dolls clean while I put the popcorn away, we don't need balls right now."
Interesting little aside here...... I'm an 80s baby which mean I came up through the golden era of rap/hip hop whatever... During the late 90s/early 2000s I listen to a lot of east coast rap. A lot of the Queens rappers they would drop an "N" in the middle of words in a similar fashion as carry speak. Phrase 1: Do you know what I mean? Phrase 2: Do ynou ninknow winwhat I minanean? Funny as hell to try and decide how to spell that all out lol. I'm sure if there is a written language then I'm way off probably haha.
Folks are so arrogant they actually feel just because you ain't heard of it, it's fake, foolishness, or brand new. This is a hundred years old. Everything isn't for everyone.
lol do you know what a cant is? this is a studied phenomenon. a cant isnt really a full independent language, but they are certainly still considered to be a subset of language by linguists. a language is basically any complex communication that can widely be understood by a group of people that all mutually understand the linguistic rules behind it. other terms for cant that are maybe more descriptive of what they really are is secret language, psuedo-language, and anti-language. a cant is more than gibberish, but less then fully developed language. it's like a half-language
You likened carny to circus at 50 seconds in. The big difference between the two forms of entertainment was explained thusly: Circus is performing artists, carnival is con artists. Real big difference. Please don't take offense if you happen to have worked in either vein.
kind of. pig latin and carny are both a type of secret language called a cant. theres a ton of different cant languages out there and historically many various subcultures and minority groups all had their own
I know most of this is a thing of the past but...why draw attention to yourself like that? A normal thinking human would expect that 'something is up' when people start to speak, in lack of better words-jibberish.
I minored in Latin and Ancient Greek so let me educate you on Latin. Latin was never a spoken language. Anyone you hear speaking Latin has memorized it. Latin was only used to keep the plebs from knowing the workings of the government and religious. Romans spoke and wrote in Ancient Greek.
I have been a professional wrestler for 18 years. A lot of us speak it because it's easier to communicate without breaking the illusion for the fans
Too bad catch wrestling shooting isn't still taught
So where have you worked?
@@Millwall77 country wise? State wise? Or promotion wise?
THATS WHERE SNOOP DOGG GOT IT! He wasn’t “hood”, he was a carny!
yup
So 😜 silly
💀
Hell no he wouldn't survive the life of the carnival. Fact
And Bubba the Love Sponge and Hulk Hogan or Hizulk Hizogan and Bizubba the Lizove Spizonge
So that’s where snoop dog got his shizzle my nizzle.
Joe Blow I was literally typing this same thing
The fucking basted
Nah he stole that from E-40
@@bashfurt E-40 stole it from Frankie SMith's double dutch bus and slang thang
you just saved me from a fight.
Snoop Dogg was speaking Carny all along!
carny is a form of "cant", which is a secret language shared among a closed group who wish to discuss things without being understood by those outside their group. many different subcultures have their own versions of cant for various reasons, and hip-hop naturally has its own. pig latin is probably the most famous example of a cant
my grandparents spoke carny and we figured it out. we knew all our gifts and family secrets. My mom and I spoke it in front of my kids, now my daughter and I speak it in front her kids
I'm hearing only half Carny and half English here. When I speak it, I speak full Carny. I break up everything.
Picked it up from my mother, who got it from my grandfather, who worked carnivals.
I do too! My parents both knew it. My mom was from Chicago and my dad was from Buffalo, New York.
My sisters and my kids all speak Carney & I break up every vowel, too.
People look at us like, What?😂😂
I can’t believe they can’t understand us!❤
Yes! That was my first reaction!
Well.... My family worked the carnivals..... We actually all still speak it regularly. All 3 generations of us.
will you teach me? i need a language jews can't understand
@@schlomoshekelstein908Lol
Fairly sure they still speak Greek in Greece.
My dad did that, too. And I have been speaking Carny since i was a baby. My dad said you should only teach people you love and it is a secret.... uh oh!
He kayfabed you
Whats the point in speaking it?
@@Millwall77 it has been pretty cool to have a secret language with people I love - very sneaky!!
That's right! Should've stayed secret. Still though.... Not too many ppl know it.
It isn't quite a dead language. My family and I have spoken it for 5 generations, and the 6th generation just started to learn it
I learned it from a friend's parents who worked at a carnival once. Their version used "ilz" in front of a vowel or between a consonant and a vowel sound. "Rat" would be "rilzat" and "handy" would be "hilzandy" or "hilzandilzy". My sister and I used it to speak without our parents understanding us and got quite fast at it . Usually it was just a game, but sometimes it came in very hilzandilzy.
Thy mom traveled with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the 50's. Us kids learned it from her. We spoke it as you described, not how the guy in the video is doing it. I can understand what he is saying but he is also mixing normal words in with his attempts at using the language.
Well they are bad teachers
Sounds a bit like what we used to call pig Latin. My friend told me that when I was at school the only phrase I can remember is ...
igofi lovergov yuvergo
Which translates as I love you.
It’s similar in that you put consonants in front of Vowels
Honestly thought my mom and I were the only ones around who still speak Carney! Yezzayyy! Lol
Did u think carnivals got outlawed or something? Wth
@@OliveMuleobviously carnivals are still around, but carnys dont really speak carny anymore. they just talk in plain english or whatever regular language they speak
I remember getting my start as a pickled punk down, right next to the donniker, down the midway from the calling card.
It's gone the way of Latin or Greek? People still speak Greek!
It's super easy to understand with no prior training
Carlos Alba that’s because he isn’t speaking it properly
He isn’t speaking it properly and he is speaking REALLY SLOWLY
Criminey. I don't understand a word of it and I can't figure it out. I am horrible with languages other than American English. I do, however, have impeccable grammar!
That’s lazy Carney. He only broke everything once. We always grew up breaking everything twice. The smart wrestling marks all figured out how to break everything once.
Siazame thiazing Iazi wiazus thiazinkiazing.
I was brought up to break every syllable. I don't see how a mark couldn't understand this :-)
earzagrearzeed! This popped up in my suggested and I watched it because my grandfather worked for some big carnivals before he retired and he and his friends would always do it. He taught me a little bit but, when they got going talking fast ( or were a bit buzzed lol ) you couldn’t understand it. This reminds me more of the pig Latin we would speak in grade school when we thought we were outsmarting out teacher lol 😂. No offense to they guy in the vid or anything but I sincerely hope no one walks up to a carny and says that lol. They will for sure be laughed at.
@@vaguelyvagrant9694 You got that right, any mark can understand him. A true carnie wouldn't be telling people about this.
I'm a big time pro wrestling mark
"With it " (in Enlish) usually works, if not you're on your own.
Shhhh don't give our secrets away....
*Wink*
People still speak Greek...like all Greek people
That's how my dad talks when he drinks
The easiest way to learn this type of language is to use something you have memorized, like a rote prayer. Either something short like the Jesus prayer: “Leazord Jeazee-eazus Chreazist, heazave meazer-ceazy eazon meaze eaza seazin-neazer.”
Or longer like the Lord’s Prayer (not writing that one out).
Is this just a pigeon language?
incredibly close to pig latin, but instead of rearranging the first consonant(s) to the end w/ 'ay, simply say 'iz before the stressed vowel?
Mario 64 music.
I learned Carnie from osmosis as I grew up on the Carnival.
Yizes izi dizo spizeak cizarny.
Uentlyfley!
I think you're mixing in some pig-Latin.
Old time pro wrestlers spoke it as well I know how to speak it
I speak it too. I thought I was the only one left. My mom and I traveled with the blue grass shows in the 70s
The Mighty blue grass shows?
Snoop taught me carney
I just brought this to my school and my friend group talks in carney so the others don't understand.
Wack
Wasnt making up your own language a thing kuds did when they were like 7? How old are you?
Pro wrestling still uses a ton of Carny language. My favourite being “take a powder.”
Oh yes.
Wizit,
My mom taught me when I was a teenager. She had learned when she was in her 20s from a Carny
They used it on the new Blacklist show tonight. They used it two different ways: at the beginning they used: long ee, then iz, like glee-iz-ass for glass, or mee-iz ee for me, or tee-iz oo dee-iz ay for today. In the latter part of the show they used the simpler version done like: feez un for fun or fiz-un for fun. I'm thinking they did it that way in the latter part of the show because perhaps it was easier for the actors, or they just wanted to showcase both ways. I had only learned it the first way, from a relative of a relative who used to be a carny.
That's why I looked this up lol
Fizun is the only way. IZ
I guess there is kind of 2 ways? The long way, and the easier way......
@@jessicanelson4694 the easy way is also easier for others to figure out and understand. Whereas, the harder way is more private.
I carney’d only for a short time and only to keep from starving to death. The ‘lifers’ spoke carney and I wanted to learn for all of two seconds. No doubt it’s still in use today. All outlaws imho
Very interesting! I never heard of that language before. Of course I never worked in a carnival but I have gone to a carnival many times before. Learning something new everyday
he doesnt speak it quite right though
The blacklist brought me here lol
I speezeak ceezarny and also another variation known as cayzarnay in which the “eez” sound is replaced with “ayz” and words with “ny” is said “nay”
Eg. payzay mayze ayzanaythayzing
I don't know, if I were a carny I'd just speak whatever language I spoke, but with some spicy terms changed for the rubes. For example, words like cop, sucker, carny, money, stupid, rigged, and dangerous could be ball, doll, toy, popcorn, clean, white, and blue. So if you wanted to say "keep the troublemakers occupied while I hide the money, we don't need cops here" you might say "keep the blue dolls clean while I put the popcorn away, we don't need balls right now."
Do you think carnys are sober enough to think of that? They're fucxed!
@@OliveMule they have a few similar tricks, for example they mark easy suckers with chalk, and they say "BC" to warn each other of danger.
Tizown Clizowwn
How to say "it's cold outside".... Chile Con Carny. Right? : /
My Great-Great grandfather spoke their own traveller language in the Fairgrounds of Britain back in the 1800s. It was called 'Parlyaree'
it seems half those words are easy enough to know what they are saying if you pay attention
Interesting little aside here...... I'm an 80s baby which mean I came up through the golden era of rap/hip hop whatever... During the late 90s/early 2000s I listen to a lot of east coast rap. A lot of the Queens rappers they would drop an "N" in the middle of words in a similar fashion as carry speak. Phrase 1: Do you know what I mean?
Phrase 2: Do ynou ninknow winwhat I minanean? Funny as hell to try and decide how to spell that all out lol. I'm sure if there is a written language then I'm way off probably haha.
Still use the Hey Rube saying at a county fair which does work .
It didn.t work the two times I really needed it, thirdy years ago, Riring a gun in the air did.
How would this fool anyone
Folks are so arrogant they actually feel just because you ain't heard of it, it's fake, foolishness, or brand new. This is a hundred years old. Everything isn't for everyone.
Old carnie here but I did not hear my crew speak it, some was old-school too.
Lol
Imagine thinking putting "zee" in the middle of english words constitutes it being a new language.
lol do you know what a cant is? this is a studied phenomenon. a cant isnt really a full independent language, but they are certainly still considered to be a subset of language by linguists. a language is basically any complex communication that can widely be understood by a group of people that all mutually understand the linguistic rules behind it. other terms for cant that are maybe more descriptive of what they really are is secret language, psuedo-language, and anti-language. a cant is more than gibberish, but less then fully developed language. it's like a half-language
Snoop Dogg talks that way
Body on the boardwalk
Eso es como herimgoza
Snizoop dizzog mizade this lizanguage eizeasier to izunderstand.
Yeah! Mario 64 bgm!
fo shizzle my nizzle
Carney is still used in somesoet among pro wrestlers and smarks
Well....yes and no.
Big Boos haunt music 😀
Foshizzle
So Snoop Dog speaks Carny?
What's with the Super Mario 64 music?
Jim Cornette sent me here
People still speak Greek wtf
Umm... It's not a foreign language any more than "Pig Latin" is a foreign language!
You likened carny to circus at 50 seconds in. The big difference between the two forms of entertainment was explained thusly: Circus is performing artists, carnival is con artists. Real big difference. Please don't take offense if you happen to have worked in either vein.
TikTok brought me here
Theozany yeezoo... yitzo beezen meozaney yearezo seesence yeezoo spezoke keezarnee.
Died with uncle les
Myself and my daughters speak Carney!
Why?
Sounds very close to pig Latin
So it’s basically pig lattin?
More like ubbi dubbi
kind of. pig latin and carny are both a type of secret language called a cant. theres a ton of different cant languages out there and historically many various subcultures and minority groups all had their own
People still speak Greek lol
So, Sims language?
Smee a zoke we iz zeed
😂😂😂💨💨💨💨💨
I know most of this is a thing of the past but...why draw attention to yourself like that? A normal thinking human would expect that 'something is up' when people start to speak, in lack of better words-jibberish.
EXACTLY!
IT NOT FOR THE MARKS ONLY, ITS TO SPEAK CODE INFRONT OF CO WORKERS
That's Snoop Dogg talk not carny
....really? REALLY? 🤣
0:18
A lizzost lizzanguage
boldering 1 z
Fo shezy do. De Yo da Bo jezy
I minored in Latin and Ancient Greek so let me educate you on Latin. Latin was never a spoken language. Anyone you hear speaking Latin has memorized it. Latin was only used to keep the plebs from knowing the workings of the government and religious. Romans spoke and wrote in Ancient Greek.
It died out because it’s useless.
So creepy. Makes me think of those creepy Werner Herzog midgets.