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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
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I also have ADHD it’s fine
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yiddish narrators love to break the fourth wall SO MUCH
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the devil went down to georgia, he was lookin for a nose to steal,
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Socks with sandals ass robot
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ESPECIALLY fitting since Lemongrab was first voiced by a sexual predator.
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my local time zone is EST (Eating Something Tasty)
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Not the tallest people: ✅ Jews ✅ Hobbits
Noticeably hairy toes: ✅ Jews ✅ Hobbits
Always feeding guests: ✅ Jews ✅ Hobbits
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Yiddish currently has over half a million native speakers and many many thousands of second language speakers and learners. It’s so far from “mostly dead.”
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איך האָב זי שטאַרק ליב 😭
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How does a peer-reviewed paper on the importance of gesture manage to erase the existence of sign languages in the very first sentence 🫠
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same thing that happens to everything else ⚡
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פֿריער אין מײַן קאָמבוטשע-לעבן יאָ 🥲 די פֿלאַש זאָל זײַן גוט קאַלט אײדער מען עפֿנט זי!
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לאָמיר גײײײײײײײײײן
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די צװײטע פֿערמענטאַציע װאָס מאַכן די בולבעלעך מוז זײַן *אַזױ* פּרעציז, ס׳איז אַזאַ שװער זאַך! (און ס׳איז לײַכט צו האָבן צו פֿיל בולבעלעך, איר װעט זען 😅)
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לאָמיר גײײײײן
שױמענדיק = מיט בולבעלעך?? 🫧
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not to make things worse but I often see it spelled “tokhes”
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My last email tried to clarify “oh haha I’m in Philly” and the reply was like “oh enjoy your trip there!” and it sent a chill down my spine
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I'm a big fan of the wahl edge pro (gives very clean lines without a guard, but also not the most comfortable without a guard)! I use a separate wahl trimmer to cut my own hair and their corded trimmers always last a long time and are usually pretty powerful for the money.
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קלײנינקע שרײַב־טישעלע
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It’s also wildly naive to suggest that Penn administrators, who have resisted their graduate students’ unionization efforts at every turn, are out there making selfless decisions specifically for these students’ future well being.
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Do you mean the same Penn that has an endowment of well over 22 billion dollars? That Penn?
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Yes, the good hearted administrators at Penn only realized all this after acceptances to these programs already went out.
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The syntax on this is a thousand percent vibes and I should look up how to actually do this grammatical construction in Yiddish
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large beans the size of small beans
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ME'EAT (sic)