Joshua Raclaw
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Joshua Raclaw
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sociocultural linguist working in trans and queer linguistics and conversation analysis. posts about yiddish, cooking, adhd, cats, professor stuff. (they/זײ) [ˈɹæ.klɔ] מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן
This is spot on because I listen to some kinds of Yiddish audio at 75% speed 😌
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
yes i was birthed by a woman this is a weird way to phrase it though
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
i know it can be good when languages just up and create a word for something new, like when arapaho speakers decided to call a computer a koonoh'e'inoo' (lit., "it knows everything") but there is power in just taking any word in the world and saying it with a yiddish accent instead
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
legit pope cope
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
i dunno sounds like the באַשעפֿעניש was already engaging in some pretty cop-like behavior
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
real talk it is hard to take yiddish seriously when one of the verbs for pouring is "shitn" and so "pour the sugar" becomes "shit dem tsuker"
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
סוף-סוף, גיסט דעם סאָס אַרײַן אין פֿאָרעם און לאָזט עס װערן קיל.
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
אין אַ טאָפּ, גיסט אָן דאָס װאַסער און שיט אַרײַן דעם צוקער און ברױנע צוקער. הײצט אָן דעם טאָפּ, ביז דער צוקער איז צעגאַנגען. שיט אַרײַן די זשוראַכלינעס, שליװאָװיץ, לימענע זאַפֿט, אינגבער, צימרינג, און זאַלץ. קאָך אױף אַ מיטלן פֿײַער אַ פֿופֿצן מינוט, ביז די זשוראַכלינעס האָבן זיך צעפּלאַצט, און גיט אַ מיש צומאָל.
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
With some fruit pies (like berries), all the time, with others (like apple), sometimes! Sometimes i just don’t feel like sugaring the apples and waiting for them to drain and then reducing the liquid etc.
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
this is great ambiguity because I was thinking about a bubbe who was SUPER into claude
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
vibe coding < vibe kneidling
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
ט ו ר מ ע
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Oregon trail ass levels of abuse here
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
ב י ט ע 😭
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM