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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: Poor English (here too)
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 09:35:10 EST
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 In article <283@ttidcc.UUCP> hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) writes:
 >[]
 >To quote Heinlein again (from foggy memory):
 >
 >"English is the result of Norman soldiers trying to make dates with Saxon
 >barmaids and no more legitimate than any of the other results."
 >
    I just happened to run across this quote after having read this article.
The real author of it was H. Beam Piper, in "Fuzzy Sapiens".
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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