Noleli’s Twitter Archive—№ 21,709

None of my family came through NY, and I’m 3rd gen N․Am-native. 2.5-gen midwest raised. I don’t sound like I’m from NYC. And that’s all.

That Yiddish word order and Jewish intonation are performative among young people agrees with my experience.

One of the more interesting features of Modern Orthodox (and Yeshivish?) is that /d/ is more dental as opposed to palatal. Not discussed.

Hesitation click is Jewish? From Israeli Hebrew? I hear it in American English speakers of many ethnicities, but almost exclusively women.