Josef Fruehwald
@jofrhwld.bsky.social
i’m a linguist. he/him https://jofrhwld.github.io/
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Josef Fruehwald
@jofrhwld.bsky.social
· Nov 9
new-fave
forced-alignment-and-vowel-extraction.github.io
Check out the docs & intro tutorials for new-fave! #nwav52
interesting developments in the American borrowing of “queue”
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
interesting developments in the American borrowing of “queue”
i understand how this happened, but it looks chaotic
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
i understand how this happened, but it looks chaotic
ok they say “any difference of opinion”, but but i couldn’t find any shares in “the Phonological Component must be Serial and Rule‐Based”.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
ok they say “any difference of opinion”, but but i couldn’t find any shares in “the Phonological Component must be Serial and Rule‐Based”.
i thought this was cool when I first saw it, but for some reason i just realized *i* could be Skip Fruehwald
Seeing Chip Carter's beautiful eulogy is reminding me of a fancy-people thing that I never learned until well into adulthood.
Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad.
Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather.
Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.
Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad.
Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather.
Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.
December 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
i thought this was cool when I first saw it, but for some reason i just realized *i* could be Skip Fruehwald
Reposted by Josef Fruehwald
They should do MyChart Wrapped
December 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
i go where the data takes me
orrrr they’re underlyingly “bike” and “trike” with velar softening: bike-icle, trike-icle
December 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
i go where the data takes me
one thing they both have in common is they seem like they're in permanently bad moods, maybe even angry?
Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
one thing they both have in common is they seem like they're in permanently bad moods, maybe even angry?
I've been low-key obsessed with pre-voiceless /ay/ for nearly 20 years, and still somehow I have "oh yeah... wierd" moments with my intuitions.
Not raised:
- bicep
- bisexual
Raised:
- bicycle
- dichotomy
Unsure:
- diverticulitis
Not raised:
- bicep
- bisexual
Raised:
- bicycle
- dichotomy
Unsure:
- diverticulitis
December 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I've been low-key obsessed with pre-voiceless /ay/ for nearly 20 years, and still somehow I have "oh yeah... wierd" moments with my intuitions.
Not raised:
- bicep
- bisexual
Raised:
- bicycle
- dichotomy
Unsure:
- diverticulitis
Not raised:
- bicep
- bisexual
Raised:
- bicycle
- dichotomy
Unsure:
- diverticulitis
me: What words rhyme with “cute”?
student: “astute”
me: Oh, that’s a good example, but l want to cover some other stuff and come back to it.
…
me: Actually, I just want to *think* about it and not talk about it
student: “astute”
me: Oh, that’s a good example, but l want to cover some other stuff and come back to it.
…
me: Actually, I just want to *think* about it and not talk about it
December 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
me: What words rhyme with “cute”?
student: “astute”
me: Oh, that’s a good example, but l want to cover some other stuff and come back to it.
…
me: Actually, I just want to *think* about it and not talk about it
student: “astute”
me: Oh, that’s a good example, but l want to cover some other stuff and come back to it.
…
me: Actually, I just want to *think* about it and not talk about it
ok, causal inference people: Lets say I have the following DAG. I see the backdoor path through C, so I adjust for C. dagitty says I *also* need to adjust for B, but I'm not sure why since there's a collider along its path?
December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
ok, causal inference people: Lets say I have the following DAG. I see the backdoor path through C, so I adjust for C. dagitty says I *also* need to adjust for B, but I'm not sure why since there's a collider along its path?
Higher Education in the US is a dumpster fire, but I'm still grateful to be free of the REF wretchedness, and what I assume will be intense pressure from the higher-ups to run everything through BritGPT or some such
Most academics strongly opposed to using AI in REF 2029
While new technologies seen as ‘game changer’ for national-level research assessment, study finds vehement opposition, particularly among humanities scholars
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Higher Education in the US is a dumpster fire, but I'm still grateful to be free of the REF wretchedness, and what I assume will be intense pressure from the higher-ups to run everything through BritGPT or some such
has anyone seen Directed Acyclic Graphs utilized for causal inference in a quantitative linguistics paper?
(p.s. I know syntax trees are usually DAGS)
(p.s. I know syntax trees are usually DAGS)
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
has anyone seen Directed Acyclic Graphs utilized for causal inference in a quantitative linguistics paper?
(p.s. I know syntax trees are usually DAGS)
(p.s. I know syntax trees are usually DAGS)
fuck it. i’m catholic again
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
fuck it. i’m catholic again
imo, this is still one of my greatest theoretical breakthroughs
Josef Fruehwald : Prolegomena to a Grammar of Knitting
YouTube video by Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
imo, this is still one of my greatest theoretical breakthroughs
the questions i get about whether or not we’ll have class the monday before thanksgiving presuppose I have a lot of autonomy about when and whether class meets, and am not, say, obliged to show up on regular working day and do the job i’m paid for
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
the questions i get about whether or not we’ll have class the monday before thanksgiving presuppose I have a lot of autonomy about when and whether class meets, and am not, say, obliged to show up on regular working day and do the job i’m paid for
I’ve hardened against “I don’t have anything against individuals just have reasonable concerns about procedure” after watching it transform into frothing hateful bile in real time.
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I’ve hardened against “I don’t have anything against individuals just have reasonable concerns about procedure” after watching it transform into frothing hateful bile in real time.
its 2025 and we're attacking AIs with poetry
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
its 2025 and we're attacking AIs with poetry
for some reason I just scrolled LinkedIn for a minute... and I just can't care about my worksona enough to post there
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
for some reason I just scrolled LinkedIn for a minute... and I just can't care about my worksona enough to post there
{ggarrow} is such a nice quality of life package for plotting vowel trajectories
Arrows for ggplot2
A ggplot2 extension that adds specialised arrow geometry layers. It offers more arrow options than the standard grid arrows that are built-in many line-based geom layers.
teunbrand.github.io
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
{ggarrow} is such a nice quality of life package for plotting vowel trajectories
you really hate to see it
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
you really hate to see it
i feel like it’s very easy to be a normal & imperfect person and not wind up in the epstein files
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
i feel like it’s very easy to be a normal & imperfect person and not wind up in the epstein files
maybe i’m not practiced, but OT feels a *lot* harder to do live at the board
i'm going to tell them about optimality theory today
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
maybe i’m not practiced, but OT feels a *lot* harder to do live at the board
i’m seeing if it lives up the the hype
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
i’m seeing if it lives up the the hype
i'm going to tell them about optimality theory today
November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
i'm going to tell them about optimality theory today
considering embedding this in my CompLing syllabus next semester
Bob Ross - Talent is a pursued interest
YouTube video by Iceberg Studios
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
considering embedding this in my CompLing syllabus next semester