Terry Crowley Quotes:

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.

source: - Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern (2010). “An Introduction to Historical Linguistics”, p.18, Oxford University Press

Topics: Attitude, People, Today

I could send you a bone with a file in it, only you'd eat it.

Topics: Bones

Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words.

Topics: Men, People, Small Gods