I've even gotten used to university administrators referring to the mentor/mentee relationship.
Mentee? Really?!
Yes. Really. One of the flaws of those who seek to inflict erudite English upon the rest of us is a weird insistence upon keeping certain words from being fully naturalized. Granted, given its origin, mentee is a rank backformation, but if may ment you on this subject, I think doing so is a good thing. If only we did the same thing with spellings. Our insistence on keeping imported spellings knocks my spine out of alignment enough to make me want to see a kiropractor. Is that a good enough example of what I mean, or do I need to show you a fotograf?
Now, I'm not exactly a linguistics purist, but
that just makes me want to throw up.
