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0 pointsrswail8mo ago0 comments

Because I loath Nouning Verbs and Verbing Nouns, I'd really like "learnings" to always have an implied or explicit set of quotes and mean vaguely defined and not necessarily ethical stuff.

There's a perfectly good noun, "lessons" and a verb, "to learn" that, when combined, provide everything "learnings" does, without the pretension of using a verbed noun. It's like "diarize" and other even worse monstrosities.

Sorry to this poster, no personal attack intended, you just pushed one of my pedant buttons.

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matsemann8mo ago

As you might guess from my language, I'm not a native speaker. And in Norwegian, the two words could be "å lære" and "lærdom", hence why it "sounds right" in my ear to use learn and learnings.

rswailOP8mo ago

Actually, I had no idea and my apologies. Your English is just as good as any "native".

English is a composite slut of a language, sucking in words from all over the place.

"Learnings" is a relatively new "corporate speak" English word invented to try to make people sound more intelligent when speaking or writing emails.

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