Talk:Boontling

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Uhhhh... is this article ever used by anyone? It looks... very very much too minor to constitute a whole language, much less a page. Isn't this just local slang? 66.102.80.243 18:56, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

well yes, one would think or say so.. because turds like you dont know history.. and it's importance.76.218.248.127 (talk) 01:44, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

It is sort of a local slang, but it's a very famous example. It's well known as a made-up language. I think it most certainly deserves an article. bikeable (talk) 19:17, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

It even has its own entry in the IANA's language subtag registry. Wikipeditor 13:46, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

My new dude is from Boonville. After being called an "applehead" I needed an understanding of Boontling. I still don't get it, however; this article has been used by someone. --Traileryourbike (talk) 11:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Heck, yes, it gets used. I grew up not far from Boonville, and learned about it in school. I like to send people here when they don't believe me when I tell them about Boontling. I have somewhere a photo of my motorcycle parked in front of a phone booth that had, instead of "TELEPHONE" at the top, "BUCKY WALTER". If I find it, I'll scan it and stick it here.

One of the eating places had a sign in the window:

Our gorms are ball,

Our zeese is hot

Other regions de-jing you,

But we will not!

(De-jing meant to charge you a lot, or maybe cheat you)

Lyle (talk) 21:36, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Dictionary stuff

The long list of Boontling vocabulary items isn't really appropriate for Wikipedia (especially since it's unsourced!). It should be transwikied to Wiktionary and removed from here. Retaining a small sampling of vocabulary seems like it would be useful to give a sense of the flavor of the language (as long as the sources for that vocabulary are cited), but Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and listing hundreds of items here is unnecessary. --Miskwito (talk) 22:34, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Since the goal of most Boonters is preserving a dying lingo, I think that it would be a disservice to remove the list of terms. They really belong on a linked sub-page. Trasel (talk) 23:11, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

First of all, let me just say that, looking at what I wrote again, it comes off as much more brusque and arrogant than I intended it - I apologize for that.

i think you came across just fine..i lived up in that area for 12yrs...mid 80's to etc, and due to all the yuppies and newbies moving into the area to start up vineyards etc, watched/saw/heard Boontling become a dying, forgotten language. For example: that phone booth? i saw it there in the 1980's, but due to microtransmissions, who needs a phone??..it aint no more. Either is that restaurant w/ the sign in the window. Lost...heres your required tildes 76.218.248.127 (talk) 01:44, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

oh yes..the name OF that restaurant was the 'Horn of Zeese'....ah, i remember it well.76.218.248.127 (talk) 02:16, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Anyway, I'm not at all against having the wordlist online as a resource and to help preserve the lingo. But as I said, Wikipedia isn't a dictionary, and material like this is most appropriate for Wiktionary. This article can then contain an interwiki link to the Wiktionary information on Boontling. At least, that's how I understand how things are supposed to work according to the policy. --Miskwito (talk) 23:01, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree that it's problematic to have the whole lexicon here, but is Wiktionary the right place? Certainly there's no Wiktionary in Boontling, and probably won't ever be. So maybe the right place for the full lexicon is Wikisource, with a link there from this article? --babbage (talk) 08:04, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

That sounds more reasonable, actually. --Miskwito (talk) 22:40, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Skype

Although the meaning is not the same, it seems almost too good to be true to have "skype" in a language 120 years before its time. Are we absolutely sure that that is not a hoax or at best a Boont word made up in recent times to seem like it belongs? ☮Soap☮ 02:51, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Wouldnt be nice if someone...found some old time Boonville folk and asked 'em?? instead of all this speculation?

language? what? really?

It's a very seductive idea to think that this is a language. And everyone from Johnny Carson to local residents have no qualms in describing it thus. However, it just ain't so. The phrase "folk language" links to the Dialect page. There a dialect is defined as a variety of a language with its own grammar, vocabulary, and (I repeat "and") pronunciation. Boontling meets only one of these three criteria: it has its own vocabulary. Thus it is not even a dialect, let alone a language. Please stop this nonsense of calling it a "language". It doesn't have a grammar (it uses English grammar) and it is not spoken by native speakers. The idea that there are native speakers of Boontling, again, is quaint and cute but it isn't true. Sorry, to burst everyone's lay linguistic bubble. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davduff (talk • contribs) 03:02, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

native speakers?...well it existed during a certain time period, spoken by the locals of that time. Seems as they move out or more so, die off, it's being lost, forgotten. Glad to see someone thought enough to put in on the Web.

Yorkville

"In the language of Boontling anybody from Yorkville was a high roller, because they would roll up their dungarees to cross the streams to come to the Saturday night dances in Boonville and forget to roll them down," Kortoso (talk) 16:57, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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Common slang

Both "dukes" and "equalizer"are common North American slang. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 09:49, 14 February 2018 (UTC).

Two purported utterances

From an Anderson Valley coaster, presumably fanciful:

• Piked to the taipin' nook, back in dubs ('In the bathroom. Back in a minute.')
• Yibe, a back-dated chuck is no horner of boont region steinber. ('Only a person behind the times doesn't drink Anderson Valley beer.'

Good luck. Ibadibam (talk) 23:24, 16 May 2018 (UTC)