All of you

Re “To Know You Is to Love You,” Column One, July 24

I find especially amusing K. Connie Kang’s fascination with the English pronoun “you.” For all of its alleged simplicity in comparison to the same grammatical concept in Korean, English speakers have been striving to create regional substitutes such as “youse,” “y’all,” “ye” and “yiz” to replace the second person plural now sadly lost but sorely needed for centuries. That absence is an Achilles’ heel to our native tongue.

DAVID R. GINSBURG

Los Angeles