Fluent Carny

[justarandomdude]

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

[nlee]

THATS WHERE SNOOP DOGG GOT IT! He wasn’t “hood”, he was a carny!

[dmw]

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

[springer]

Snoop Dogg was speaking Carny all along!

[jessicanelson]

Well.... My family worked the We actually all still speak it regularly. All 3 generations of us.

[barefootdesigns]

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.

[jtvz]

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.

[AJKenncan]

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!

[carlosalba]

It's super easy to understand with no prior training

[HelloNewMoon]

People still speak Greek...like all Greek people

[aureliatodd]

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.

[gmamagillmore]

"With it " (in Enlish) usually works, if not you're on your own.

[mrdupont]

Fairly sure they still speak Greek in Greece.

[Ope_itsadam]

I remember getting my start as a pickled punk down, right next to the donniker, down the midway from the calling card.

[nwheregrrl]

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.

[valeriefitzer]

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

[davidsandrock]

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).

[katierae]

Honestly thought my mom and I were the only ones around who still speak Carney! Yezzayyy! Lol

[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.

[bigj]

Old time pro wrestlers spoke it as well I know how to speak it