Pre-boarding is just boarding. Pre-booking is just booking.
Pre-prefixing everything. Sigh.
"Please revert" - you mean 'reply', not 'return to a former state'.
"Ping me" - ugh.
And my favourite.... "Learnings" - you mean lessons. "What drivings have you been on?" ... "What journeys have you been on?"
Is close to a real sentence pronounced upon us from a management type during one of their endless Zoom meetings.
Someone sent in a semi-private chat shared by some of us, "They meant, we should share what we've learned."
I feel like we worked for the same company. Last time I heard this exact phrase I was participating in a meeting where one of the agenda points was feedback from a meeting about meetings.
Result: we scheduled another meeting.
Important question: did we deliver value?
Ping me => email/call/slack/whatsapp/zulip/telegram/meet-in-person me
What bothers me are 'ask' and 'lift' used as nouns. They add nothing to the language, and are just ugly. Maybe my father felt the same the first time he heard 'sweet' to mean 'cool.'
"Build out" instead of just build.
"Actionable" - although it is a real word, it is a legal term, not a synonym of practical.
It literally has no other meaning outside of the ICMP echo utility; and the onomatopoeia of hitting glass.
How did it enter the Business world?
What about in the context of a sonar system on a submarine? My first encounter of the term was probably The Hunt for Red October.
Everyone of a certain age will have seen a half dozen submarine WW2 or Cold War films so regular people do have context.
And there's nothing wrong with it.
'Learnings' is an odd word but it actually makes sense because there are no perfect substitutes. 'Insights' isn't quite it.
(a) a formal lecture given by a qualified person to a class;
(b) a fact that you learned from any person or even just a situation you were in.
"Lesson" in the sense (b) is a direct substitute for "a learning", but I have to admit a few people might sometimes interpret it as (a) and be confused. But it depends on the context - if a project report has a "lessons learnt" heading I don't think any reader is going to expect that means meaning (a).
I'll bet there are words in other languages that more perfectly capture the meaning of 'learnings' - and admittedly it's a really ugly colloquialism ... but I would accept it out of a resigned pragmatism.
There are plenty of other English words that work in context where you might use 'learning', like 'lesson', 'insight', or 'takeaway'. 'Learning' just encapsulates them all without nuance.
Every place I've worked with managers that speak like this has invariably produced crap.
Pre-booking is the initial step before a complete booking.
Ticket agencies use 'pre-booking' to book the first tiny tranche of tickets.
And HR departments seem to love 'pre-authorization' to get... authorization for holidays, or purchasing, and so on.
eg you can make on the day bookings or call up HR to say you've got dave from forklifts incorporated on the phone and you need the company card immediately.
I personally love "ping me". It's even shorter and more punchy, compared to "message me".
Language evolves. Shakespeare would find our English today bewildering. Instead of complaining about it, I find it most helpful to keep up with the latest lingo, and focus instead on conveying my message most clearly.