Attention, Masters of Business Administration of Corporate America:
Quit using the word ‘learnings’. It makes you sound really stupid. The word you really want is ‘lessons’.
Your pal,
Jeffrey
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While I totally agree with all of the above, is there not a danger that you are obsessing about this…(sorry !)
oh…this is part of the evolution of language,colloquial term…It seemed accepted but technically it’s not correct.
Thanks,
I always thought learnings wasn’t a real word, even when everyone else around me kept using it, but I had a mental block coming up with a better one.
“lessons,” It is so obvious in retrospect.
I got my learnings real good like.
Horrible word that people use without thinking. It is almost as bad as seeing a native speaker (which I am not) use “informations” which is equal to grammatical genocide.
I cringe at the sight of the word learnings, it has obviously been forced into the language with no objective reason.
Totally agree.
I think “insight” is also a good alternative.
But then again, people might start saying “insights”.
I like “insight” a lot.
I would have thought that spelling the English language would have been more of a priority for Americans…
other equally suitable substitutes, “findings”, “discoveries”, “insights”. If “learnings” was a word then these 3 along with “lessons” would be considered synonyms, but since it isn’t they aren’t.
Thank you all. I am very reassured to find I’m not alone in being distmayed, saddened and nauseated by the adoption of ‘learnings’ as a corporate-speak buzzword in government publications here in Queensland (Australia). Depending on context I much prefer any of ‘lessons’, ‘(new) knowledge’ or ‘insights’.
Saying “learnings” is a great way to sound like a hillbilly.
>I would have thought that spelling the English language would have been more of a priority for Americans…
It is not Americans using this term “learnings”. It is usually found in use by New Zealanders or other “Down Unders” IMHO
“Insights” is like “Learnings” or “Emails”
The plural for of Insight is still “Insight” since the root word is “Sight”.
The plural form of Email is still “Email”, since the root word is “Mail”. You don’t say I have “mails” in my mailbox.
Everybody thinks if you just add an “s” to a word, it’s plural… PLEASE!!
In this following post by a company based in Christchurch, NZ, I found the following text:
“The learnings from the UAV field trials will significantly improve the capabilities of the Martin Jetpack for first unmanned, then manned flight. ”
That’s how I figured it is used mostly below the equator.
I thought “learnings” was bad… then I heard “What’s your ask?”
The scary thing is, the more one hears these terms, the more one becomes acclimated to them.
Hello,
How funny it is to see so much person talking about matter of so great importance.
I beg your pardon for my bad use of English as I am not a native English speaker.
I was looking on the internet if the word “learnings” actually exists and found this page.
And I wonder who the fuck care about its existence or not.
I mean this is how language are created. People didn’t woke up one day saying “Hey, I speak English now !”
In most of the other languages, singular is without “s”, plural is with an “s”.
The world changes, so the words do. Deal with it.