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"""Back-formations.
---
layout: post
source: The sense of style
source_url: http://amzn.to/1EOUZ5g
title: back-formations
date: 2014-06-10 12:31:19
categories: writing
---
Back-formations.
"""
from proselint.tools import memoize, preferred_forms_check
@memoize
def check(text):
"""Suggest the preferred forms."""
err = "pinker.latin"
msg = "Use English. '{}' is the preferred form."
list = [
["other things being equal", ["ceteris paribus"]],
["among other things", ["inter alia"]],
["in and of itself", ["simpliciter"]],
["having made the necessary changes", ["mutatis mutandis"]],
]
return preferred_forms_check(text, list, err, msg)
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