The plural of the noun related to 'learning' is 'lessons', not 'learnings'.

We learn 'lessons', we do not learn 'learnings'.

Any of you that work in a corporate setting, can you please assist me in preventing the propagation of this abomination of the English language.

Thank you. (two words)

Harrow, I hear your pain. I feel it. Everyday at work I trudge through the turgid pea soup of modern corporate English. I do my small bit to keep verbs as verbs, nouns as nouns. I try not to implement things, but to do them, not to mistake mistakes for opportunities for enhanced learnings. It is a loosing battle. Sad thing is, I work in a University.

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musorianin said..
Harrow, I hear your pain. I feel it. Everyday at work I trudge through the turgid pea soup of modern corporate English. I do my small bit to keep verbs as verbs, nouns as nouns. I try not to implement things, but to do them, not to mistake mistakes for opportunities for enhanced learnings. It is a loosing battle. Sad thing is, I work in a University.

It's become so prevalent that it's not worth pointing them out any more...

Touche

The most irritating items in my corporate work surroundings are the pens and paper that aren't going anywhere because apparently they're stationary!

after many years of working in a school i've come to realise it's pointless fighting it, so now i just embrace it, and before we know it, we'll all be speaking and spelling in Croatian

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Harrow said..
The plural of the noun related to 'learning' is 'lessons', not 'learnings'.

We learn 'lessons', we do not learn 'learnings'.

Any of you that work in a corporate setting, can you please assist me in preventing the propagation of this abomination of the English language.

Thank you. (two words)

I agree. Some people need to farther there learnings of the Anguish language. Their is two many mistakes being made with granmar.

here children are no longer learning "script"
they have computers after all ...
once voice recognition works as designed, most will not be typing ??
when i do write on paper @ work, people actually ask - "something wrong with your computer ?"
LOL, RFLMAO, IMHO, etc does not help matters
one complains about too many acronyms in computer world
how about everyday internet ??
Brave New World

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Harrow said..
The plural of the noun related to 'learning' is 'lessons', not 'learnings'.

We learn 'lessons', we do not learn 'learnings'.

Any of you that work in a corporate setting, can you please assist me in preventing the propagation of this abomination of the English language.

Thank you. (two words)

I've noticed, here on this forum that many of you use the word "learnt", past tense of "learnings" or "lessons".
That is a word that isn't even recognized in the U.S. anymore, we use "learned" or "taught".
Also the word "recon" for "guess", recon used to be used in the U.S. about 150 years ago, and the only time you hear it now days is in western movies, spoken by cowboys. "I recon I could go over yonder to see what all the firein' is all about". Come to think of it, both of those words "learnt" and "recon" can be heard in old western movies.

No complaining here, just interesting observations.
I like many of those old timey words.

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Harrow said..
The plural of the noun related to 'learning' is 'lessons', not 'learnings'.

We learn 'lessons', we do not learn 'learnings'.

Any of you that work in a corporate setting, can you please assist me in preventing the propagation of this abomination of the English language.

Thank you. (two words)

Maybe you need to form a committee, have regular meetings to 'touch base' with you colleagues, appoint a 'learnings' team leader so you can drive real cultural change in your organisation. This will help you become more efficient and effective and avoid future right sizing in our organisation.....now what was the problem again ??!!??

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Waiting4wind said..

Maybe you need to form a committee, have regular meetings to 'touch base' with you colleagues, appoint a 'learnings' team leader so you can drive real cultural change in your organisation. This will help you become more efficient and effective and avoid future right sizing in our organisation.....now what was the problem again ??!!??

Yeah, definitely more work required 'in this space'. (Arghhh, there's a guy at work who can't string a sentence together without including that moronic phrase!!)

You'll have to check how many FTEs you have in the FE's, going forward, otherwise how can you plan your dynamic workforce mobilisation, that is, of course, if you're keeping one eye on your metrics, particularly your KPI's???

Agree, I think we need a scoping session to touch base on what bookends we need to set up to get the right learnings.

y u bean so pacific abowt landwich?

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bloody automatic rude word remover thing :(

the stars spell s h i t

SHlT sh1t

Guys I think we are just spinning our wheels here.

Can we just park this as a paradigm shift from windsports and try to get some traction to move forward into a win-win situation ?

Rather than just reinventing the wheel perhaps could you take this offline ?

it's the doldrums, **** gets typed

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Carantoc said..
Guys I think we are just spinning our wheels here.

Can we just park this as a paradigm shift from windsports and try to get some traction to move forward into a win-win situation ?

Rather than just reinventing the wheel perhaps could you take this offline ?

Guys, we're not making any progress here.

We've gone on a tangent. Can we return to the original topic for everyone's benefit.

Perhaps continue this conversation later if you like.

......................................and that is what we call ENGLISH LITERACY!!

The abomination,as you call it, of the English language has been going on ever since the residents of that island started using it. Vibrant languages constantly evolve. If you compared English written 200 years ago with Harrow's ideal, they would be different. If you want a language that never changes, then I suggest you speak Latin

verba illa obscura, neque aliquid sensus habent

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John340 said..
The abomination,as you call it, of the English language has been going on ever since the residents of that island started using it. Vibrant languages constantly evolve. If you compared English written 200 years ago with Harrow's ideal, they ould be different. If you want a language that never changes, then I suggest you speak Latin

True enough, but I'm mostly talking about the corporate speak that I know a lot of us just sit there shaking our heads at. Most entertaining is observing certain aspirational young colleagues instantly adopt phrases in parrot fashion that they hear their superiors using in the workplace.