When cousin Mendel got carried away, Arguing politics, or religion, or Proper social behavior— What’s the difference — When cousin Mendel got carried away, Which was often, As he took the world Quite seriously, When cousin Mendel got carried away His Yiddish inflected accent, Basted in Warsaw Polish, Cured with functional German, Spiced with care by Parisian French, Simmered for a few years In Barcelonan, then Havanan, Spanish. He was nearly unintelligible in His late acquired New York English. So when cousin Mendel got carried away, He became quite fastidious In his choice of words. He knew, with dictionary certainty, Exactly what the word he used meant, And would not tolerate my Native English sloppiness.
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When cousin Mendel got carried away, Arguing politics, or religion, or Proper social behavior— What’s the difference — When cousin Mendel got carried away, Which was often, As he took the world Quite seriously, When cousin Mendel got carried away His Yiddish inflected accent, Basted in Warsaw Polish, Cured with functional German, Spiced with care by Parisian French, Simmered for a few years In Barcelonan, then Havanan, Spanish. He was nearly unintelligible in His late acquired New York English. So when cousin Mendel got carried away, He became quite fastidious In his choice of words. He knew, with dictionary certainty, Exactly what the word he used meant, And would not tolerate my Native English sloppiness.