Joshua Raclaw
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
- I’ve been interviewing Yiddish language learners and many of them have talked about grammar and expressed their frustration with gender, which as a nonbinary person I relate to very strongly
- Reposted by Joshua RaclawCBS on the cardinals: "One thing we know they're not doing is checking Instagram because their devices have all been confiscated. I believe the kids call it rawdogging."
- Reposted by Joshua RaclawSpeechless.
- Reposted by Joshua Raclawapplying for jobs again
- Maybe we dump only two jets into the sea instead of thirty, you know, and maybe the jets will cost a little bit more
- Another US fighter jet falls into sea from Truman aircraft carrier, US officials say reut.rs/3GJnYxF
- Reposted by Joshua RaclawI remain endlessly bitter that my cat can use an old umbrella as a pillow and be more comfortable than I have ever been sleeping on any bed
- Listening to the beginning of one of my research interviews and a shaky internet connection apparently caused my Yiddish "sholem aleykhem!" to sound just like a Hebrew "shalom" and then my interviewee responded back with "shalom" and now I wonder how that might have influenced the interview
