Father Steve adjures us Don't let this happen to a language you love.*

Really! Next thing you know people will be leaving the inflectional suffixes off of words and we'll have to resort to word order or prepositions or some such neoplastic tommy-rot to understand what other people mean.

Just out of curiosity, what's so ugly about mentee? Mentor has taken on a meaning different nor that of teacher and student doesn't differentiate between the the recipient of teaching (Oooh, ooh, ooooh, teachee) and that of mentoring.

*This is just the sort of stuff that makes me love the language