A FURTHER RESPONSE TO A QUERY

A FURTHER RESPONSE TO A QUERY

Returning to things boyish:

in the Bronx we weren't Goyish

and even  spoke some YIDDISH

or so I thought until 

at Columbia many decades later

I heard other opinions.

It seems that   Hitler and his minions

have made Yiddish a disappearing tongue

no longer spoken by so  many  young.

As a result, its grammar has  been clarified 

and its vocabulary classified and stratified 

until  scholar Uriel Weinreich was satisfied.

So,now  instead of being spontaneous  

with whatever sprang to minds 

using words of different kinds

of origins

like a Puerto Rican's Spanglish

it no longer causes Professorial anguish

and  has thus become more antique  

to be studied 

as if it were   Latin  or Old  Greek.

and  

my once youthful  Bronx yiddish is  ostracized

for being much  too Americanized.

HZL

7/25/15

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