June 25, 2006

Boonville California is a small town in the Coast Range Mountains between the Sonoma Valley wine country and the Mendocinoo Coast. It's a scenic area and largely agricultural, but it's most widely know for Boontling, a folk language created there in the 1800s. With a vocabulary, of over a 1000 words, it was remarkable to hear. But, sadly, it's on the brink of pikin' to the dusties.
posted by path 17 years ago
  • Don't go off half-cocked, else I'll larrup the hide offen you and kick you in the ose. Those three made it as far as I-dee-ho. Path, t'is the bahlest!
  • Boontonics?
  • Why, path, this is indeed a remarkable and even uncannhy instance of Baader-Meinhof! For I stumbled over the Wikipedia entry only a few days ago! Tell me again -- how do these codgyfolk say synchronicity in Boontling?
  • I think they probably say "huh?" or maybe "wow!."
  • Which reminds me: where's BasilDrak keeping himself these days?
  • where's BasilDrak keeping himself these days? I don't know, but a colleague who went over to Germany recently for one of the matches tells me that at least 98% of the Australian male population appears to be there at the moment.