German-style adjectival phrases using Latin and English elements
I wonder why on-the-job training, at-will employment, ex-parte application, in-vitro fertilization are more usual than the better English training on the job, employment at will, application ex parte, fertilization in vitro.
I also wonder why children say me and him in the subject, leading to the odious hypercorrection he and I in the object.
I wrote that twenty years ago? Somehow I thought it was within the past year or two.
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