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Lessons. There's no such thing as learnings.
by 10g1k 5mo ago
Lessons. There's no such thing as learnings.
- criddell 5mo agoLearnings is irritating to me. The way kids use the word aesthetic is irritating too. I wonder if I might be that old man shaking his fist at the clouds, but I have gotten over begs the question, and literally, so maybe not yet...
- tskj 5mo agoA lesson would be a specific learning activity happening at a specific place and time, administered by a person more knowledgeable than you; like a teacher or mentor "giving a lesson". If you're fine with the generalized form "learned a lesson", then surely "learnings" is fine too. There's no point in trying to police a completely normal and sensible use of language.
- esafak 5mo agoSo when you cause an incident because you did not pay attention and "learn your lesson" who's the mentor?
- tskj 5mo agoThe universe. Anyway, I accept this usage of the word "lesson", so I also accept "learnings". My point was one of hypocrisy, not policing people in how they can use the word "lesson".
- zahlman 5mo agoI understand the instinct, but that's a bit too prescriptive for me. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/learnings https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/learnings