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Obras de Mario Pei
The New World Spanish/English, English/Spanish Dictionary (El New World Diccionario español/inglés, inglés/español)… (1969) 547 copias
Words in Sheep's Clothing: How People Manipulate Opinion by Distorting Word Meanings (1969) 17 copias
Wanted: a world language 3 copias
The consumers̕ manifesto 2 copias
The Australia New Zealand living Webster encyclopedic dictionary of the English language : twelve supplementary… (1975) 1 copia
Russia's secret weapon (reprint) 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Living Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language (1971) — Introducción — 61 copias
The Golden Carnation and Other Stories Told in Italy (1960) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 10 copias
The Webster Reference Dictionary of the English Language: With a Historical Sketch of the English Language By Mario… (1982) 2 copias
Teaching English as a Second Language in Elementary and Secondary Schools (1958) — Prólogo — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1901
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1978
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Italy (birth)
USA - Lugares de residencia
- Rome, Italy
New York, New York, USA - Educación
- City College of New York
Columbia University - Ocupaciones
- professor
author
consultant to OSS, etc. - Organizaciones
- US Army School in Monterey
NATO
University of Pittsburgh
Columbia University - Biografía breve
- Mario Andrew Pei was born in Rome, Italy, in 1901. Like many Italians of the period, he moved with his family to New York City in 1908. Following his own father's scholarly example, he attended many public and parochial schools. He was an excellent student and was already fluent in five languages by the time he graduated from High School. He went on to learn 30 other languages, as well as the sentence structures of over 100 more languages. His education included receiving a bachelor's degree from City College of New York and a doctorate from Colombia University in 1937.
He started teaching languages at City College in 1923 and joined the Department of Romance Languages at Colombia University in 1928. In 1932, he published "The Italian Language.” During World War II, his language proficiency was put to use as a language consultant to the Office of War Information and the Office of Strategic Services. It was then at he wrote language courses and guides.
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