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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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Mario Pei

Mario Pei

Born: February 16, 1901
Died: March 2, 1978 (aged 77)
Bio: Mario Andrew Pei was an Italian-American linguist and polyglot who wrote a number of popular books known for their accessibility to readers without a professional background in linguistics.
Known for:
  1. The story of language (1952)
  2. A dictionary of linguistics (1954)
  3. One language for the world (1958)
  4. The families of words (1962)
  5. Languages for war and peace (1943)

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