[Sca-cooks] OT: trying to find quote

[Susan Fox]

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"
>   
 From 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."

Selene