Talk:Mario Pei

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Divulgational? You mean, revealing someone else's secrets? Whose secrets? Jim.henderson 17:03, 30 October 2006 (UTC) If his books are supposedly full of urban myths, perhaps it would be good to list at least an example or two.

Urban myths
"...capable of speaking some 30 others..." I'm not sure what that means, where the source for it is, and how one would actually verify it at any rate. Any of my linguistics profs would have been able to 'speak' hundreds of languages, provided their alphabets were Latin-based, and thousands where IPA samples are available. JohndanR (talk) 16:26, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Kindly cite a myth or two, or a short list of factual errors (for example a concentration of them in one book) or delete the accusation. Jim.henderson 16:57, 22 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Reviewed Work: The Story of Language by Mario Pei. G. Bonfante. Italica
 * Vol. 27, No. 3 (Sep., 1950), pp. 270-275
 * American Association of Teachers of Italian


 * Unfortunately, the bulk of this item needs a subscription or institutional log-in access. But the first page is available. Bonfante then goes through the book seriatem with numerous examples, and it seems fair to say that he only picks on the most patently absurd material and leaves out stuff that would be mere technical nitpicking (with respect to Pei's lay target audience). Otherwise I guess the review could have sustained several dozen pages. JohndanR (talk) 16:15, 15 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Give me several days, I'll ask around at my colleagues for their favourite howlers. CRCulver 16:59, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

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