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It's corporate-speak. There are all sorts of these things. Lessons/learnings Requests/asks Solutions/solves Agreement/alignments It definitely sounds weird

It's corporate-speak. There are all sorts of these things. Lessons/learnings Requests/asks Solutions/solves Agreement/alignments It definitely sounds weird if you don't spend a lot of time in that world. It's like they replace the actual noun forms with an oddly cased verb form, i.e., nominalization. Oh, one of my most hated: Thoughts/ideations Jeez...

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throwaway11460 3y ago
And lessons is academy/state school-speak. Can't stand the word. Take your lessons home Ms Teacher, this is a place of business. Edit: funny how this is down voted but the corporate speak comment not :) we use the word learnings at home. It means what you have learned yourself, as opposed to getting a lesson about it.
- zeroCalories 3y ago
  This is why people have adopted corp speak. They're traumatized by words and need to replace them to help with their ptsd. In 10 years "learnings" will be replaced by something like "considerations" or "updates" when zoomer managers get to set the rules.
  - antonchekhov 3y ago
    I've heard "findings" (ab)used as a synonym for this as well.
- cmrdporcupine 3y ago
  You're downvoted because this was legitimately not a noun until the last 10-15 years, and it came from corporate/bizdev lingo not regular speech. Lessons has been used since the 13th century. It's amazing to think that the regular accepted noun sounds snooty to you. The least snooty would be "knowledge", which has Anglo-Saxon Germanic roots, and is much older going back to the 12th century.
  - empthought 3y ago
    They definitely had the word well before the last 10-15 years. It might have been spelled "learninges" or "lernynges".
op00to 3y ago
I’ve never seen “learnings” used in my corporate life.
- antod 3y ago
  Really? I'm always adding value by cascading and socialising learnings to my team. The rest of my value is thinking up innovative new nouns to verb.
  - op00to 3y ago
    The ask here is for you to align with the rest of us on learnings.
esafak 3y ago
"Solves" is a thing now? We need to brainstorm a solve for the problem? Eww. Not in my company you don't.
dgunay 3y ago
"Aligned" is probably one of my least favorite pieces of corporate lingo to become popular. Makes me imagine a D&D alignment chart and all the black and white thinking that comes with that.

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throwaway11460 3y ago

And lessons is academy/state school-speak. Can't stand the word. Take your lessons home Ms Teacher, this is a place of business. Edit: funny how this is down voted but the corporate speak comment not :) we use the word learnings at home. It means what you have learned yourself, as opposed to getting a lesson about it.

zeroCalories 3y ago
This is why people have adopted corp speak. They're traumatized by words and need to replace them to help with their ptsd. In 10 years "learnings" will be replaced by something like "considerations" or "updates" when zoomer managers get to set the rules.
- antonchekhov 3y ago
  I've heard "findings" (ab)used as a synonym for this as well.
cmrdporcupine 3y ago
You're downvoted because this was legitimately not a noun until the last 10-15 years, and it came from corporate/bizdev lingo not regular speech. Lessons has been used since the 13th century. It's amazing to think that the regular accepted noun sounds snooty to you. The least snooty would be "knowledge", which has Anglo-Saxon Germanic roots, and is much older going back to the 12th century.
- empthought 3y ago
  They definitely had the word well before the last 10-15 years. It might have been spelled "learninges" or "lernynges".

op00to 3y ago

I’ve never seen “learnings” used in my corporate life.

antod 3y ago
Really? I'm always adding value by cascading and socialising learnings to my team. The rest of my value is thinking up innovative new nouns to verb.
- op00to 3y ago
  The ask here is for you to align with the rest of us on learnings.

esafak 3y ago

"Solves" is a thing now? We need to brainstorm a solve for the problem? Eww. Not in my company you don't.

dgunay 3y ago

"Aligned" is probably one of my least favorite pieces of corporate lingo to become popular. Makes me imagine a D&D alignment chart and all the black and white thinking that comes with that.