"It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today."
"Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words."
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Source: Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern (2010). “An Introduction to Historical Linguistics”, p.18, Oxford University Press
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