Talk:Carny
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More info on carnies can be found at carnytown.com
[edit] False informatizion
The revision made "as of 05:55, 29 August 2005" says that carny includes the insertion of the "iz" syllable to existing words. That sounds an awful lot like Snoop Dogg#Trivia, although in Snoop Dogg's case it is attributed to Frankie Smith and the Gap Band. Is this actually a feature of carny, or is somebody having us on?
- This is actually a bit of carny. In professional wrestling's version of carny, one of the most popular terms is "Kizabe Fizabe", which translates out to kayfabe. - NickSentowski 21:49, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Aren't some of the words attributed to Carny just regular English slang words? "Scratch" has always been a slang word for money, I don't see how this is or was specifically Carny. "Mark," too...you hear this word with the same meaning, in the 1970's period film The Sting...it just sounds like ordinary gangster slang. "Call" is used with its ordinary English connotation, too...I don't see how this should be attributed to another language or even to jargon--vendors of all types 'called' before carnies even existed. Dr spork 03:36, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] FeezucKeezoff
The pronounciation in CarnyTalk is actually more of a eez (long e sound), not the izzle-speak (short i sound) that is popular today. Also, it's spoken very fast, with all the words kinda slurred together, and syllable separation & accenting are different, to make it even more difficult for the marks to follow. If ya want to really screw with someone's head, then you speak eezarny-keezay teezalk in eezig-peezay eezatin-leezay.
Gangster/criminal slang vs. carny slang is often a chicken/egg question, since there has always been a lot of overlap among the various underground sub-cultures.
Terry Yager 06:42, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Cant?
Is this US-only or Canada too? It's not UK as far as I know. Do we think it is a cant? There seem to be similarities with polari as a language of travelling showground people. We should try and find more info on the structure, vocabulary etc - although this is obviously hard for secret languages.. Secretlondon 01:47, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
