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.