To the editor — A recent cartoon in the Herald depicted an image of a space rover and two green creatures with six eyes and tentacle-like arms. A speech bubble from the rover stated, “No aliens to ...

George Will made fun of progressive language ticks, many of them very silly. However, it is not just the silliness that needs attention. It is the misuse of history: applying today’s values to those ...

George Will’s sneering complaints about progressives’ use of language being weird suggests he is just looking for things with which to find fault. The language he sarcastically cites seems pretty ...

2019 marked the 400-year anniversary of the first ship transporting enslaved Africans to Jamestown, Va. A piece of writing that touches on this subject is a collection called the 1619 Project, from ...

In her delightful column, Meghan Daum bemoans the acknowledgment by the Oxford English Dictionary of the common misuse of “literally,” opining that its misuse is not only cheating but “cues the ...

From recent events, it seems that FVRLibraries has been taken over by agents of divisiveness, n. or div-ICE-eness. One small brave word, “equity,” has been taken hostage alongside other concepts of ...

The commentary on languages submitted by Elise Patkotak which appeared in ADN on Oct. 3 was one of the best I have read on the subject of language. The fact that languages change over time is a sign ...

To the editor — Allow me to clarify one point in your recent story on the Yakima City Council's decision to let the voters decide how they want to be governed. Yakima City Attorney Jeff Cutter claimed ...