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Cannonpointer » 09 Feb 2023, 12:19 pm » wrote: ↑

09 Feb 2023, 12:19 pm

I cannot answer your question - though I have little doubt there is an answer. But to your observation, yes - THAT is the measure of a polyglot. The ability to write poetry in a non-native tongue. Indeed, it could be argued the man had more than one native tongue. I can manage unnuendo in Spanish - but I could never write a poem beyond the rudiments.

The educated French were adept at writing and speaking English, although they thought of it as you do Ebonics. So, when a Frenchman writes a sing-songy, rather crude and base poem such as that one, I can assure you that "Meg" and her husband were people good 'ol Fontaine liked about as much as I like Jill and Joe Biden.