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Mario Pei (1901-1978) was an Italian-born linguist, translator, and educator, renowned for his contributions to the field of linguistics.

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“Of all the words that exist in any language only a bare minority are pure, unadulterated, original roots. The majority are "coined" words, forms that have been in one way or another created, augmented, cut down, combined, and recombined to convey new needed meanings, The language mint is more than a mint; it is a great manufacturing center, where all sorts of productive activities go on unceasingly.”

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“If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff?”

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Book:The Story of Language

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“Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.”

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Book:The Story of Language

Source: The Story of Language

“Good architecture lets nature in.”

Author:Mario Pei

“One piece of advice can be universally handed out, and it applies equally to speaking, understanding, reading, and writing. If in the course of any of these language activities, you run across words whose meaning or use baffles you, don't by-pass them. Look them up in the dictionary and familiarize yourself with them.”

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Author:Mario Pei

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Born: 1901
Died: 1978
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