[Sca-cooks] : trying to find quote

Johnna Holloway johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Mon Jun 4 10:55:35 PDT 2007


http://www.hollylisle.com/tm/create-a-language2.html
It turns up in a variety of versions like here--
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010722.html
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1143354368.shtml
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501060710-1209997,00.html

The earliest I found was
*Fuzzy Sapiens* by H. Beam Piper (1964) /

"*English* is the result of *Norman* *soldiers* attempting to pick up
Anglo-Saxon *barmaids*, and is no more legitimate than any of the other
results."

/

Johnna

Kirsten Houseknecht wrote:
> ok, can any of you folks find the complete version of this quote for me? and
> the author if possible
>
> "english is the language norman soldiers used to pick up saxon barmaids...."
> i know there is a bit in there about "but they lacked the ____ to express
> these concepts"
>
>
> Kirsten Houseknecht
>   





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