[Lexicog] mentee/mentoree

[Benjamin Barrett]

Excellent counterexamples to my claim, thank you!

It sounds like what's going on is that a single-syllabic stem is being 
employed to form new -ee words. I wonder if there's a phonetic template 
that's causing this...

Benjamin Barrett
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David Tuggy wrote:
>
> -ee spawns oddities, it seems to me. Two others I have enjoyed, and 
> seen in fairly high-falutin’ publications, are baptee (=one who has 
> been baptized) and dediquee.
>
> --David Tuggy
>
> Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>
>> The normal formation is to add -er/-or to get the person doing it and 
>> add -ee to the receiver of the action. So employ-> employer, employee, 
>> address -> addresser, addressee. There isn't a verb for mentor, but 
>> using back formation you get: mentor <- ment and then ment -> mentee. BB
>>
>> Fritz Goerling wrote:
>>   
>>> I discussed with David Frank, an SIL colleague on this list, whether 
>>> ”mentee” or “mentoree” is more common. 
>>   
> __._




 
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