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My Favorite Writer
Ching Ching
After a lot of reading of stories and posts on Medium, I have chosen Ching Ching as my favorite writer to date. Why? English is not Ching Ching’s native language but you may not know it. English is a tough language to learn to speak, let alone write as an adult. I know this from experience being a homestay parent for 8 years with students from Japan, Mexico, Korea, Switzerland and South America. Dinner conversations were interesting, to say the least with questions being asked of my wife and I about why we used certain words and more about our colloquialisms. I grew up in New Zealand and my wife in Ireland so though we both speak English, we each speak a different kind of English.
Ching Ching brings a certain savoir-faire to her writing style. She writes with a lovely flow. What many people forget is that English is a language constantly in flux. Many of Ching Ching’s sentence structures are not 100% correct but they are very interesting and what is so important to readers, they flow. Correct English can be boring.
There is no longer “proper” English as it was once called, this being the standard that all English speakers were expected to strive for. Now, there are so many “English’s” spoken who is to say what is correct English and what is not. Ching Ching has seemed to grasp many of the nuances of the English language and does not allow the fact…
