How can I remove links from the function “get term list”?

Question

<?php echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'people', 'People: ', ' ', '' ); ?> 

returns something like this:

People: <a href="person1">Person1</a>, <a href="person2">Person2</a>, ...

How can I make it return the same thing without links like this:

People: Person1, Person2

Answer 1

It may be easier to just write the list manually, something like:

<?php
$terms = wp_get_post_tags( $post->ID );

foreach( $terms as $term )
    $term_names[] = $term->name;

echo implode( ', ', $term_names );

Answer 2

I found another method that more directly answers my question:

<?php $terms_as_text = get_the_term_list( $post->ID,'people', 'People: ', ', ');
if (!empty($terms_as_text)) echo '<p>', strip_tags($terms_as_text) ,'</p>'; ?>

Credit: CSS Tricks