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It pains my prescriptivist instincts to say so, but FWIW I do interpret them differently, frequently as the complementary sides of a single event: A learning i
by quesera 4y ago
It pains my prescriptivist instincts to say so, but FWIW I do interpret them differently, frequently as the complementary sides of a single event:
A learning is a successfully learned thing. Or a received lesson.
A lesson is a taught thing. When effective, this would be one path to a learning for the receiver.
- criddell 4y agoI suppose that makes sense. Personally, I would write lessons learned rather than learnings in part to get rid of the red squiggle. My dictionaries flag "learnings" as a typo.
- nescioquid 4y ago"Lesson" also bears this meaning of something learned, though that would make "learnings" more precise, and therefore distinct. My experience seems to be that people who use "learnings" are referring to the lessons learned by others, usually subordinates and is used instead of "lesson" because of -- being sensitive to how harsh it sounds to say "group X learned several lessons".