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<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="2"> "mentee." But I think
that word is going to have to be used a lot more before it starts to
feel to us like a legitimate English word, since "ment" doesn't mean
anything in itself.</font></div>
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(Depends on whether you ment anything by it or not.)<br>
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<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="2">In a way "mentoree" would
make more sense than "mentee" especially if you know the source of the
word "mentor" and think of it as a single morpheme. But using that
logic, a person who does mentoring would be a mentoror.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="2">-- David Frank</font></div>
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And how come we don't Achilles people?<br>
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And a tailor would be a tailorer, and a raptor would be a raptorer ...<br>
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Seriously, mentor is still strongly, in my mind, basically a noun, from
which a verb is derived. Same as for tutor. So the paucity of mentorers
and tutorers (though of course you can find them googlely) is natural
enough.<br>
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Anybody remember Garrison Keillor's wonderful sketch about picking (and
doing other things with) tomatoes, where his sister, "who was a good
person," figures as the "tomatoee"? Would somebody who is skewered on
the Prairie Home Companion be a Keillee?<br>
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As Hayim suggests, this topic can easily become hectic, if not
downright mentic.<br>
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--David T<br>
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(Like Peter Wimsey, who was drunk on words most of the time … topic
> toper > topee ...)<br>
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But this pattern is samewhat hectic, even I didn't want to sound
mentoring.<br>
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<b><i>Fritz Goerling <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Fritz_Goerling@sil.org"><Fritz_Goerling@sil.org></a></i></b> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">It is
interesting</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font e="Arial" fac!="">
that from both heroes</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">,
Mentor and Hector,</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">of
Homer</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">’</font></span><span
lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">s Iliad,</font></span><span
lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">verbs are derived in English,</font></span><span
lang="en-us"></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">“</font></span><span
lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">to mentor</font></span><span
lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">”</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
face="Arial"> and</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">“</font></span><span
lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">to hector</font></span><span
lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">”</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
face="Arial">?</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">How
come that there are</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">further
derivations like</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">“</font></span><span
lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">mentorees/mentees</font></span><span
lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">”</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span
lang="en-us"> </span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">but no</font></span><span
lang="en-us"> <font face="Arial">“</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font
face="Arial">hectorees/hectees?</font></span><span lang="en-us"> </span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial">Fritz
Goerling</font></span></div>
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