Carny Talk, A Unique Language

[@lisachant5411]

I really love this.... I never knew about this til i watched BLACKLIST on Netflix

[@lisasteigerwald6033]

Omg that’s why I searched for it haha

[@fionacardosi44]

same here!

[@wolffang8592]

Me too

[@imtrashatgames5382]

Blacklist gang

[@mr.humble7932]

That's why I'm here hahahhahaha

[@bobophet]

My mom traveled with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the 50's, this is in fact what they spoke. I learned it exactly as you speak it, Most of my immediate family can understand it, and some speak it fluently, You are the first person outside my family that I have ever heard speak it. Me and my sister speak it fluently. Thanks for the video!

[@ornamentalyouth]

that's amazing

[@arnavbhagwat4232]

Im 100% sure that there are variations. I'm from India and we have a version of Carny that's used in my family but in out native language. Same rules. Probably picked it up from some carnival guy.

[@TheeCertSmoker]

That's soo cool

[@TheAllstargamer]

can you teach me

[@prowrestlingcolumbus]

Professional wrestling has roots in the carnivals, and some still speak carny to this day. A great way to communicate with an opponent right in front of the audience. Dizuck thiza bizoot, Cizut Mizee izoff.

[@brucegrigg3704]

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[@Shrasha]

I love reading about the history of professional wrestling and how intertwined with carny it is.

[@FilmThePoliceFTP]

The only ones that speak carny currently do it because they think it makes them look smart.

[@visionaryhdfilms913]

Mick Foley speaks it

[@MissKat77]

Thank you for posting this! My Dad used to speak carny all the time when I was growing up. When he passed in 2017, I kicked myself for not paying better attention to learn it from him. This video really helped me remember!

[@Tommy.end12]

Could you do more on speaking Carney please? There is nothing else on KZbin. I find this very very interesting and would like to learn myself

[@WaynePyrzewski]

It's very siz•imp•izzle to tiz•alk and to liz•earn. It just tiz•akes some priz•act•iz-iss in using and spiz•eak•iz-ing 👍

[@wdixonusa]

Born a carny 74 years ago. Spoke the same carny language as you do as a child. Born on Goodings Number 1 unit. Have traveled with many different shows and circus as a child. Grandfather ,a carny with joints and parents with circus acts (Globe of Death and Cannon act with Edmondo Zacchini. I have about lost the ability with few speaking it today plus I quit the road 50 years ago,but still have sawdust in my shoes..I retired as a manufacturer ,but the education I got on the road has served me well

[@childprotectorwolfpackcpwp6971]

Bill Dixon my father started at Goodings Charles w Brooks

[@dirtwaterfoxdirtwaterfox963]

Bill Dixon did you know a backend show owner by the name of Dean Potter circus of the fantastics

[@dottiejacobs1781]

Many long years ago, my dad traveled with the carnival and did a trapeze act. This was in the late 20 and into the 30's. He met my mom and they both traveled for spell. They started having a family, and that was the end of them traveling with the carnival. My parents always talked in Carney when they didn't want me to know what they were saying. That stopped when I was about 5. My mom asked my dad to stop and buy me an ice cream cone. I got excited and said I would like that. I guess after hearing carney so much that on that day a light bulb went off in my head. That was 71 years ago. I have tried to teach my kids carney, but none seem interested in learning. It is a dying language. What a shame. I have a few old pictures of my dad on the trapeze and rotating ladder 110 feet in the air and no net.

[@dirtwaterfoxdirtwaterfox963]

Dottie Jacobs then you remember all the rides being on the ground no trailer mounts

[@jjeagon1]

I'm 45 and I've been speaking carny within my family since I was a teenager and this takes me back to when I was learning

[@tiredlawdog]

In the mid 1950's, my buddy and I learned "Carnie Talk" from his mother. She had told him and me that his father and her used it to talk around my buddy when he was a youngster. Now she taught is to use EAZ behind every vowel. I can still to this day speak it almost as fast as I can English. We even used to throw in a word or two in German just for fun. I will be 74 years old next month, I have no one to talk with in Carnie talk any longer. None of the kids wanted to learn it nor did my wife. So, I guess it will die with me on this end.

[@suzanneledoux2079]

Sooooo excited to see this video! My grandparents worked the carnival and I grew up listening to my grandfather and father speak it. Great to see people still speaking Carny talk Thanks for posting

[@deem694]

I'm 20 years old and I've grown up speaking carny, the rule in my family is we can't teach each other, we have to pick it up naturally. It was always fun talking to my cousins in school 😄

[@petestanley4087]

Babygirl Dee hot hottie

[@cherylrosenholm1304]

Thank you so much for this! My father taught it to my mother in the 50's, & my daughter, friends, & I still use it on a regular basis. Ours sounds exactly like yours. It's so fun to hear & find others that speak it as well.

[@AyaSuzuhiro]

Gosh, I grew up learning this from my dad (who was a carny for a long time). It's sad that it's almost a dead language, but it'd be really beneficial for two people who actually speak it.

[@Kiki.Kouture]

My entire family on my mom's side is carny folk and through the generations everyone has learned the language so now I can fluently speak it and it really cool

[@pentelegomenon1175]

It's actually quite clever because the ES always goes before the vowel, so it doesn't matter if you hear "instant" as in-stant or ins-tant or inst-ant, it always translates as "ESin-stESant." I also like how it resembles strange acronym-riddled jargon, so the message is hidden in plain sight.

[@labella42071]

My mind is blown. My mother taught me this and said her parents made it up and that she figured it out when they we talking about buying her and her sister Go-Go boots for Christmas. So I’m watching Blacklist on Netflix and I hear my family’s language. I do a little Google search and learn its true origin. I’m 42 and been speaking this for decades now and just tonight learning the true origin.....mind blown

[@labella42071]

Also, my Grandfather is from Montana too

[@gerryvickers7098]

It's like Pig Latin - put 'eg' before every vowel. It's surprisingly easy - egtit's segurpregiseginglegy egisegy :)

[@StarlightEater]

Lol. The key is to use as complex as possible descriptions of things to maximize syllables. Love, An 8th generation flea market vendor/pawnbroker/fence/picker

[@karielaine]

Thank you for sharing this with us. I first heard about Carny Talk while watching Blacklist tv show, and this video popped up in my search for more information. Your explanation and sample talk were all really informative and interesting. I'm going to check out your other videos now. ~Peace~

[@theswaamii]

i can still speak and understand it proficiently. there was even a song from Frankie Smith, called Double Dutch Bus, released in Feb 1981, where they sang using Dizzuble Dizzutch sizzinging

[@shaykay3075]

I heard it growing up, my sister and her friend claimed they made it up, they said it with ears not es but still sounds like how you say it.They must had heard it and heard it that way. Me and my sister are talking it again,Never knew anyone talked it until one day i heard it talked on a show of some kind while i was in the kitchen, and i told my husband i knew what they said. There are only 6 people i know that can talk that, and they are family and one friend.

[@gordonmanni4863]

my great grandfather was fluent in carny and this is making me feel so nostalgic from listening to him banter with my mom.

[@AngusMacFurgus]

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. This is the best video I have found regarding carny talk. Thank you!

[@Bigcox1984]

Tucker Furguy blacklist is what brought me here.

[@skdewolf7606]

My husband and his fraternity brothers spoke this to keep the pledges in the dark so they wouldn’t know what they were planning. Yes I’m from the south.

[@Razel42]

As other mentioned, this was also used by professional wrestlers at one time. Largely derived from karnival wrestlers entering the pro wrestling business. The version commonly used in pro wrestling circles used "iz". The WWE/WWF have even used in on television for example a skit in 98 refering to Mark Henry as "Mizark Henry" and a short lived wrestling character called Kizarny who would regularly speak carny in promos.

[@gmamagillmore4812]

The wrazzlin ersion is called kasabee.

[@rebeccabrady3602]

Thank you for sharing this video. My mom and dad used to speak this in front of me and my sister when we were little so we wouldn't know what they were saying until they found out I knew what they were saying. I still remember they were talking about taking us to the movies.

[@Hilander1298]

That is cool. You are welcome.

[@countcorybernstein6006]

This is absolutely wild! I learned it from my Grandma, and we used to always speak it and she had nothing to do w carnivals, were from Chicago and was always talking in Carnival Language. I'm 55 now and was curious to Google it now and see ur video and others who can speak it. I was curious if there was such thing as Carnival language and this came up!! But now I'm totally stumped how she would know it long before I was born!

[@cassie133]

I speak Carny. Learned it from my mom & auntie. My great grandpa was in the carnival. He taught my grandma and so it goes. I have passed it on to my own children. Love to hear this!

[@gdawg89]

My family had a variation of it that with different letters that modify the syllables. I haven't spoken it in years but I did recently rehash it with my mom and it came back like it was yesterday!

[@blazedolanderson8457]

I find this interesting and I've been a carny for 29 years. Very few people left can truly refer to themselves as a true carny anymore so you don't hear this spoken all that often except from old timers. Where I'm from you add iz after the first letter of each word which is simple enough but when spoken fast is hard to understand. I think people who haven't been with it very long are more familiar with carnival lingo instead of the actual language. For instance; money is referred to as a yard, c note, sawbuck. Or a game is a joint, or that the rock-o-plane is simply referred to as the rock.

[@shaykay3075]

All these years i thought my sister and her friend made it up, they used words lerasike tearshis.

[@jamesteegardner2273]

@@shaykay3075 I see what you did there.

[@ooocarniegirlooo]

@@MrOTcomputer 😯 speak for yourself - town mark!

[@michelegillespie1971]

Yes Cizarni. My husband spoke it.

[@ReedThomas71]

@@shaykay3075 words like this?

[@AwakeningEnthusiast]

Well I guess we learn something new everyday! ;) Thanks for the possible conversation starter when I drive a couple carnies to Tennessee tonight sir. ;)

[@dawndugan520]

Our mom learned carney in the 1950s from carneys at the fair and taught all of us kids in 1960s. She used the eez pronunciation vs the ees one.

[@staceyshade3418]

Official carnie right here, it is indeed eez. Try saying easy peezy. Eez zeh see zee, easy. Pee zeh see zee.

[@Glory2Snowstar]

This is crazy fascinating, I’m 100% using this as one of my character’s main method of communication. Thank you for the info! :D

[@3OHT.]

5:54 "this comes with practice, not that you prolly even care" I DO CARE

[@IdealX-fr4eg]

I'm here because I just finished Joyland from Stephen King and was fascinated by "the talk"

[@TheSoloAsylum]

maybe this is why texting is so popular

[@tonymickens8803]

We used "Cary" Talk growing up in the Hood here in Detroit back in the 60's, 70's and 80's and Pro Wrestlers back in the day Used it also.

[@gristen]

me and my friends used to do something similar to this, but just through writing. we would replace every vowel in a word with all of them at once. so "hey, what's up?" would become: "haeiouy, whaeiout's aeioup?" we'd make posts like this on social media and confuse all our other friends 😂

[@MagnumVideos]

Amazing! EesI Neeseed Teeso Dressiveese MessI Meesuseesteesang. ???

[@caydengonzales6736]

@magnum how do you speak carny

[@francesmcphail7601]

I just happened to run across your Video..this is just a note, to say Thank You..🙂..You put a Smile on My Face..I haven't heard anyone since my mother pasted away speak #TheCarnyLanguage .. she past away in 1974..My Parents Owned a Carnival back in the day..my mother told dad when I came in this world (1950) that he had to get out of the business by the time I was 3ezish..he did and we settled in Venice, California..Long Story short☺️..after all this time⏳I still can remember😊... Thank You, Frances (Frankie) Fisher - McPhail

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you, always like to learn something new. You did a good job explaining.

[@MajikCatSecurity]

Hey man that a Silver Eagle mic behind you on that shelf? NICE

[@newworldcreations4714]

Many thanks for the info. I am a fiction writer researching for a novel involving some creepy carnies terrorizing residents of a small town. I know nothing of their unique lifestyle, history, culture or language. But am fascinated enough to learn. Yours was the first YT video I stumbled upon today in my quest for information. Found this beginning extremely helpful.

[@gmamagillmore4812]

If you don't know anything, maybe you shouldn't weite a book.

[@jimearly5594]

Carney Talk (Language used by carnival professionals) - In the late 1940's and early '50s, my step-dad had a record like a 45 RPM - breakable - that taught Carney. His carnival was based near Chilicothe, Ohio in the Winter. My step-dad, Henry (Ace) Webb, was in charge of the tilt-a-whirl and we lived in a tent. I had heard more than once people condemn Carney as "Satan's language". For me, perhaps too young at the time, there was nothing Satanic on the record. Another comment I recall was that the language was from gypsy's which makes the language somewhat Indo-European. I recall Gypsies (so called by other carney's) that were with the carnival - had their own tent - no crystal ball - that when they talked it sounded like Carney.Beyond internet, I haven't heard the word Carney talk and for what ever reason, as I lay in bed I began reliving the Carnival life of the late 40s - early '50s and began recalling the language I had experienced during that time and went to the "internet". I am near 80 and words came to me clearly, though I am not certain of their meaning.QUESTION: "Is Carney talk yet alive or has it faded form the recollection of those in our 70s and older? Any remaining 45 RPMs? ... Price? Jim

[@Hilander1298]

+Jim Early Thanks for sharing. Cool.

[@traceysanders514]

I'm in my early 20s and my dad was a flat store agent and a fixer.. with Jack ruback ..in Montana. I was raised as a dooker to bring in the marks

[@kkgt6591]

Explain more please.

[@MrCountrycuz]

Also we never spoke to one another in long sentences in this code talk.Mainly we used to convey something important to each other in the presence of a sucker or mark.mostly one or two word sentences.

[@DeanO]

That was interesting...kinda like pig latin in elementary school

[@staceyshade3418]

Anyway im gonna help you help me, we use carnie talk for everything. I was taught in kindergarten, sworn to secrecy cuz we been using it help eachother out cuz we also use it when we're in danger. So cool, you can use carnie with ever language. Even Chinese. So heezave eeza geezood deezay my neighbor. Thank you for ur service ❤

[@ryanpritchard3755]

I've been fully fluent since I was 9 now 30. Cant find ppl to speak it with either. Wasnt part of the carnie life but glad to have found you.

[@yurihvd7207]

We have kind of the same thing in the Netherlands.

[@shaykay3075]

Thearsis earsis hearsow earsi searsay earsit. Sounds the same to me as you say it.It works for me, I can understand what you say very easily. Me and my sisters also use the talk when we are around others that talk in their language, and we never found anyone that understood us.

[@lowkey502]

My family were carnies back in the day and I grew up with this language. I have never found anything about it anywhere else.

[@kwiinzee3364]

Can you teach me please 🙂

[@SeekerXMusic]

I learned something simular as a kid we called gibberish. we would use idiga/idigee/idigo/idigi

[@12leadingedge12]

Thank you. This was broken down really well. I learned it in the early 80s Wrestling in the South East. They didn't teach you...so to speak but you picked it up after a while. Unless you were seriously a "mark" (someone outside of the circle for various reasons)! By the way, I still speak it occasionally when talking to older wrestlers. But I am rusty.

[@DaltonHBrown]

Interestingly, my brothers and I did this with each other as kids all on our own.

[@markstewart6104]

My family has used this all my life and I'm 56. We add ERS between syllables.

[@AmonAmarthFan609]

You could have just said the “ees” comes immediately before the first vowel

[@jennthomas8389]

My family were not carnys but spoke this! ❤

[@Millwall77]

Why?

[@Epsilonsama]

Carny was spoken in pro wrestling as well until the 90s.

[@alanjamesful]

okay hold up this whole carny talk thing must be completly died out because im 18 and have been a "carny" for over two years and still going and never ever heard a single little bit of this from anybody....

[@Hilander1298]

+alan field Might be. Read previous replies. Some have used in in other variations.

[@LoveNikkiX]

I'm 23 been in the carnival my whole life. This is 100% still a thing

[@naegling3]

The Carnie my grandmother taught me uses "ee-uhz" as the syllable modifier.

[@mikeschumacher9715]

Blacklist brought me here. Bet you were in Security Police and stationed at Malmstrom and maybe Kunsan?

[@Hilander1298]

No. Yes and yes. Lol. Do I know you? Lol

[@missmac4099]

Thaizank yaizoo vizairy meizzutch. It was a great way to have the young kids not understand what us old folks are saying and now the young kids are grown and can speak it well and now their kids don't know what we are still saying. I never tell anyone "I" invented the language. Just that it is Carney and they will figure it out after a while.

[@TheHunnidsPodcast]

Who’s here after hearing Stone Cold’s Podcast?

[@markraver483]

in england they speak alot of roma talk i no alot funfair people say dont call us gypsys but the first people to sell toffie apples on a stick wer roma/gypsy people, but can understand people wanting to distance them selvs from the word gypsy

[@MrCountrycuz]

I can also explain the gafs on all the old games.(how they are rigged)

[@MissNyPeachJerseyAppleBottom]

Didn't missy Elliott's video has yhst6

[@Syberiandoorknocker]

Never heard of Carnie talk until I heard bubba the love sponge anfmd hulk hogan talk it

[@MrKingcooper95]

pro wrestlers also used carny back in the day to help keep from smarting any fans up

[@johnwilburn]

Or in James Mitchell's case, to get past the censors.

[@MrCountrycuz]

yizou thizink uyay izar the Izonly wizone? I was raised on this on the carnivals back in the 60s.

[@Hilander1298]

+Josef Venport LOL cool

[@maddratt]

Bizoring Vizedeo. Mizarks dizon't nizeed tis knizow.

[@Gam3Junkie]

Thanks for sharing this. Fascinating stuff.

[@dennisgreiwe2078]

My father taught me "ab" and "ig"... My favorite is Refrigerator in ig Rigefrigigerigatigor (Rig 'uh' frig "uh' jiggerig 'uh' tig er) Or same in "ab" Rabafrabigaberabatabor (Rah buh frah buh jobber abba tah ber)

[@billyknoxx304]

It's called Cant. And some of we professional wrestlers still speak it to this day.. its IZ

[@peekaboots01]

Why would he share a SECRET language? Now we all know. If I was a carnie I wouldn't tell a soul.

[@nonancyz3757]

We called it Double Dutch as kids.

[@chrisortiz8072]

I know wrestlers use to use it also. Im kinda wondering who or when this was invented maybe I'll research it

[@geodezix]

I'm 2 minutes into this vid and you haven't gotten to the point yet...so long!

[@Hilander1298]

+geo dezix So long.

[@ashadeofnight]

Isn't this the same as pig Latin but with a different sound

[@laurasimmons4220]

I know carny. My dad taught us. It’s a lost art

[@MrCountrycuz]

If you not a real Carny you will always be a Mizarck.bit I agree with you that we allways used an IZ sound and not an eeez sound. I never heard anyone use that sound

[@michelegillespie1971]

The language is called, Kizari. Or Cizarni.

[@kevinjackson1275]

Yesou sesir esare esa gesenesius! Nesow esi cesan lesearn cesarny

[@michaelaguirre1084]

My Uncle was a carny esthank esyou. 9.28.2022

[@MrCountrycuz]

Fizzzirenot feezirecizan yizou Izunderstand mizee?

[@tkdkid2]

Typically you add an IZ after the first syllable, not ES or EES.

[@Erwin.Clayton]

Hey!! My sister used to speak this language with her friends! So I DO CARE!!!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@andrewhinrichs8920]

Very cool i reccomend watching the blacklist you might like it

[@briandiaz1409]

I'm a balloon store agent no one knows "run em up" means I bet

[@Dacornboii]

I care. Let me learn this ! I need it !

[@kalebfingerboards4408]

They should just call it snoop dog language

[@KJ-rb7kn]

This is fascinating. Refrigerator would be a tough one! 😅

[@genevievevigenski9022]

I learned it two ways i think, at least I've always done it two ways anyways lol. I put eezid instead of what you are saying. Also double talk. You put inig after the first consonant. Me and my friend and my sisters use to do it just so ppl wouldnt know what we were saying.

[@xpanda_juice1923]

Thank you for your service, Sir

[@29myshelle]

I've been speaking fluent Carnie since I was 8yo. My sister a I always speak it and it pisses our kids off.....lol

[@twosiciliansisters5747]

First time o heard it was on the blacklist So interesting

[@jakenelson4366]

I’ve been speaking this is my family for years haha

[@katk925]

My aunt taught this to me as a child. Her first husband was from a famous trapeze family and they all spoke it.

[@ParisAbigailMoore]

Thank you for this!

[@aaacemaga4484]

Watching paint dry..