Valeria Ochoa (she/ella)
@valeria8a.bsky.social
Spanish Linguistics profe, focused mainly on Spanish as a Heritage Language at Oregon State. 🦫 Views my own.
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Most Spanish words come from Latin, but did you know there are 2 different types?
Words inherited from spoken Latin vs. words borrowed from written Latin during the Middle Ages and after.
Some words took both routes, creating doublets.
Here’s episode 3 of my 10-part doublet series.
Next: Italian.
Words inherited from spoken Latin vs. words borrowed from written Latin during the Middle Ages and after.
Some words took both routes, creating doublets.
Here’s episode 3 of my 10-part doublet series.
Next: Italian.
December 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Most Spanish words come from Latin, but did you know there are 2 different types?
Words inherited from spoken Latin vs. words borrowed from written Latin during the Middle Ages and after.
Some words took both routes, creating doublets.
Here’s episode 3 of my 10-part doublet series.
Next: Italian.
Words inherited from spoken Latin vs. words borrowed from written Latin during the Middle Ages and after.
Some words took both routes, creating doublets.
Here’s episode 3 of my 10-part doublet series.
Next: Italian.
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Gullah-Geechee descendants on Sapelo Island may be facing a massive property tax increase that could open the doors for developers to turn the island into a vacation spot for the rich
A meeting for property owners to give feedback is scheduled for today
A meeting for property owners to give feedback is scheduled for today
Tax targeting Gullah-Geechee landowners on Sapelo Island could force land loss
The effort to reassess the Hogg Hummock property is the latest move that could force Gullah-Geechee descendants from Georgia island.
www.splcenter.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Gullah-Geechee descendants on Sapelo Island may be facing a massive property tax increase that could open the doors for developers to turn the island into a vacation spot for the rich
A meeting for property owners to give feedback is scheduled for today
A meeting for property owners to give feedback is scheduled for today
Check out my chapter in this if you’re so inclined. 🤓 Didn’t realize until today this was posted when the book first came out.
Books: Aquí se habla: Schwartz, Magaña, Grammon and Loza (eds.) (2025): Aquí se habla serves to envision a more just and equitable Spanish language education that centers language learning as a deeply personal, local, and lifelong practice. Organized around long-standing tension points within and…
Books: Aquí se habla: Schwartz, Magaña, Grammon and Loza (eds.) (2025)
Aquí se habla serves to envision a more just and equitable Spanish language education that centers language learning as a deeply personal, local, and lifelong practice. Organized around long-standing tension points within and outside the field, this…
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December 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Check out my chapter in this if you’re so inclined. 🤓 Didn’t realize until today this was posted when the book first came out.
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Here’s the latest on the deadly shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island.
https://to.pbs.org/48Uk6nU
https://to.pbs.org/48Uk6nU
Live updates: Deadly shooting at Brown University
The shooting happened inside of a classroom.
www.pbs.org
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Here’s the latest on the deadly shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island.
https://to.pbs.org/48Uk6nU
https://to.pbs.org/48Uk6nU
For one of our class projects, a student made a video of themselves cooking caldo de pollo. Every step from the recipe to buying the ingredients to the actual cooking was included and connected to our course topics. It was glorious.
December 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
For one of our class projects, a student made a video of themselves cooking caldo de pollo. Every step from the recipe to buying the ingredients to the actual cooking was included and connected to our course topics. It was glorious.
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The pianist, composer and arranger spent more than six decades turning El Gran Combo into one of the premier salsa institutions of Latin America and beyond. n.pr/4qeZn5p
Rafael Ithier, a legend of salsa music, dies at 99
The pianist, composer and arranger spent more than six decades turning El Gran Combo into one of the premier salsa institutions of Latin America and beyond.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The pianist, composer and arranger spent more than six decades turning El Gran Combo into one of the premier salsa institutions of Latin America and beyond. n.pr/4qeZn5p
Guillermo del Toro did it again. Gorgeous work.
December 6, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Guillermo del Toro did it again. Gorgeous work.
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Demand for Indigenous Latin American language interpreters has surged in Oregon. This group is helping meet it
Collective of Indigenous Interpreters helps bridge language gaps in Oregon courts - oregonlive.com
“I don’t know what we would do if we didn’t have the Collective, honestly."
www.oregonlive.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Demand for Indigenous Latin American language interpreters has surged in Oregon. This group is helping meet it
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I learned about two projects that are supporting people to get food.
This one allows you to cover someone's groceries: findagrocerybuddy.com/become-a-don...
This one allows you to cover someone's groceries: findagrocerybuddy.com/become-a-don...
Become a Donor | Find a Grocery Buddy
Fund a verified grocery order through Find a Grocery Buddy. Pay securely via PayPal — we’ll place the Instacart order and send you proof of delivery.
findagrocerybuddy.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I learned about two projects that are supporting people to get food.
This one allows you to cover someone's groceries: findagrocerybuddy.com/become-a-don...
This one allows you to cover someone's groceries: findagrocerybuddy.com/become-a-don...
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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A Michigan appeals court ruled that the city of Detroit failed to follow *its own laws* about public oversight of surveillance tech. These laws are crucial bc "Automated license plate readers, facial recognition, body-worn cameras, drones, and the Real Time Crime Center are all active in the city."
Court ruled against Detroit in surveillance tech case. It's still dangerous. | Opinion
Detroiters filed suit after the city failed to follow its own ordinance governing surveillance tech like ShotSpotter.
www.yahoo.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A Michigan appeals court ruled that the city of Detroit failed to follow *its own laws* about public oversight of surveillance tech. These laws are crucial bc "Automated license plate readers, facial recognition, body-worn cameras, drones, and the Real Time Crime Center are all active in the city."
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A video captured of Maria a Street Vendor reunited with her
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A video captured of Maria a Street Vendor reunited with her
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.
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it's so deeply rude to answer someone's question with the output from a chatbot, or even to reference prompting the chatbot. they asked a person for a reason. if they wanted to see what output the chatbot would barf out, they could get it themselves.
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
it's so deeply rude to answer someone's question with the output from a chatbot, or even to reference prompting the chatbot. they asked a person for a reason. if they wanted to see what output the chatbot would barf out, they could get it themselves.
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I'm attending #LSA2026 online this year, AND they've let me put myself in charge of having virtual social opportunities, so if you want to socialize with me and other linguists at LSA (and I hope you do because I wanna hang out with linguists!) that's going to happen online too!
🧵Register for virtual attendance at the #LSA2026 conference! You can filter the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting Program for the Track "Hybrid" and see the 45 sessions that virtual registrants will be able to attend. www.linguisticsociety.org.
And some real talk below:
And some real talk below:
LSA
www.linguisticsociety.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I'm attending #LSA2026 online this year, AND they've let me put myself in charge of having virtual social opportunities, so if you want to socialize with me and other linguists at LSA (and I hope you do because I wanna hang out with linguists!) that's going to happen online too!
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Language development, linguistic input, and linguistic racism
An indictment of the field that I put my whole heart into
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
An indictment of the field that I put my whole heart into
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Language development, linguistic input, and linguistic racism
An indictment of the field that I put my whole heart into
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
An indictment of the field that I put my whole heart into
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I turned to my husband and said if this man doesn’t cuss her out this is not written well and when he did I was like yeah dude cus that’s the only real interaction she would get. 😅
Loved watching Carol in #Pluribus call back the man with an individual mind in Paraguay just to counter his "hijueputa" with a Mexican Spanish "chinga tu madre, cabrón."
Chef's kiss.
Chef's kiss.
November 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I turned to my husband and said if this man doesn’t cuss her out this is not written well and when he did I was like yeah dude cus that’s the only real interaction she would get. 😅
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Reposting this…for reasons.
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reposting this…for reasons.
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Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
Giving this another shot.
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Giving this another shot.
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NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show.
“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
“Under the Microscope”: Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show
Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have collaborated with private security to surveil largely peaceful protesters opposed to the Thacker Pass mine, according to a ProPublica review of thousa...
www.propublica.org
July 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show.
“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
“They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
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Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday.
We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
July 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday.
We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.
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People who think every brown person they meet looks just like that one brown guy from CSI that they cannot name are supposed to be trusted to make meaningful distinctions about physical appearance.
July 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
People who think every brown person they meet looks just like that one brown guy from CSI that they cannot name are supposed to be trusted to make meaningful distinctions about physical appearance.
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Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call.
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
July 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call.
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE
NOEM
STOLE THAT $
FOR ICE