EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Pitts’ column contains language some readers may find offensive. He intentionally uses this language to illustrate how far we’ve come since such words and […]
Tag: language
Do you know what ‘fascist’ means?
by Nicholas Goldberg Americans know little history and what little they know they forget. That’s one reason we should be careful about throwing around historical allusions and […]
Fuzzy language not helping fight COVID
by Faye Flam People no longer know what to do about the COVID pandemic. Part of the problem is the very language we use to talk about […]
It’s hard to fight from a crouch
So let’s talk about That Word. Meaning the word the political left was using to define itself until the political right got hold of it and made […]
‘Latinx’ wasn’t made by ‘woke’ whites
by Jean Guerrero The dubious claim that the term Latinx is a creation of white liberal elites — one being vigorously promoted in right-wing circles — is […]
Search for neutrality: Words fill a void
by Steven Roberts In 1986, The New York Times announced it would begin using the honorific “Ms.” “Until now,” the Times explained in an editor’s note, “’Ms.’ […]
Why do humans speak?
I once saw a post that described communicating as “emitting sound waves from one person’s mouth that go into another person’s ears and are then converted into […]
The extensive foreign language offerings in Mon schools get their voice from the excess levy
MORGANTOWN — The two people engrossed in conservation a few summers back at Mylan Park Elementary School were actually speaking the language of the levy. As in, […]
Speaking the same language: Chinese immersion camp for Mon elementary students to be held next month
A couple of summers ago in Monongalia County, when pandemics were the subjects of dystopian science fiction novels, a lesson in tolerance was being talked out in […]
Instant Messenger
Speech pathologist creates core board to communicate It all came together quickly for Kristin Messenger. The Morgantown speech pathologist, who works with autistic children and children who […]
