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

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

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

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.