Boontling in Boonville.m4v

Boontling in Boonville? Uh, yeah. While linguistically and anthropologically, it's virtually impossible, the tiny town of Boonville, California has its own language. Welcome to Boontling. Here's your first harkin session.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Boontling
• Boonville
• Mendocino
• California
• semiotics
• secret language
• lingo
• tom thumb
• old mother hubbard
• nursery rhymes
• Campbell
• pregnant
• burlap
• big breasts
• ball

[julesolder]

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

[julesolder]

Yes, and not just Vikings. (There's more in Charles Adams' book, BOONTLING: An American Lingo.)

Glad you liked the video. jules

[julesolder]

Well, NOW yer harpin!

jules

[julesolder]

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.

[julesolder]

I'm still gobsmacked that this impossibly small place could create ad maintain its own language/lingo for well over a century.

jules

[johnnysketch1]

That's Laytonville, not Lautonville. Sorry.

[johnnysketch1]

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!

[BeerExpedition]

This very informitive so I know Bahl Hornin is "Good Drinking" Do they call it Horrin because vikings use to drink out of Horns?

[donnarudin]

Enjoyed deeking on your ball video!

[WillitsGal]

Being a native of Boonville, I loved your video. Didn't quite understand why you included photos of Hopland though.

[TwoCows23]

@ASHL0TTE Just a phonetic translation of 0:39. I have no idea how to actually spell it in Boontling.