Another Perspective on English

From the Los Angeles Times:


To Know You Is to Love You
A Korean-born reporter's embrace of an egalitarian English pronoun freed her from the hierarchal strictures of her native tongue.
By K. Connie Kang
Los Angeles Times
It's all about you.
I fell in love with this English pronoun when I first met it on my father's knees more than half a century ago in Seoul.
Initially, it was the sound that captivated me.
Later, as I continued to study English under my father's tutelage — he was a pioneering scholar of English and German at South Korea's Seoul National University — I began to love this three-letter word for the way it made me feel.
"Good morning to you," I said with emphasis whenever American and Canadian Presbyterian missionaries visited our home.
When they responded with a big smile and "Good morning to you too," I was in heaven.
You was an ally that empowered me.
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