It makes sense to try and accumulate "mileage" on one disproportionately more than on the others. That way, you could get learnings of long term issues (ideally) before the rest of the fleet is at risk to make necessary improvements.
More generally, though, being a grammar nazi is silly. Dictionaries are defined by the common use of language and language is quite flexible, evolving, unique to individuals, and even used to be much more geographically continuous than it is today.[2]
1 - https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng...
2 - Here's my favorite talk on the subject given by Chomsky, highly recommend a listen (especially to the poster of those dead comments): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdUbIlwHRkY
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Kindof sad when you put it like this actually. I assumed it was a bot but I guess there's an HN captcha to prevent that? Well anyway I hope they're able to find some inner peace.
Especially when the correction is bogus, 'learnings' is proper English.
Still that spam was totally over the top.
The young American nation fell in lockstep with the Webster approach of a prescriptive dictionary whereby a self appointed gatekeeper decided for others what was and was not correct English.
They further pursued this path by embracing the doctrines of Strunk & White in The Elements of Style.
Meanwhile, back in the cradle of the English hodgepodge the multi-volume wall lining known as The Oxford English Dictionary took a descriptive path that described English as she is wrote.
"Proper English" is a car crash caused by a train wreck of Romance and other languages uttered by survivors wandering about a global incident site.
"We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng...
Just because a word is in the dictionary it doesn't mean you can just drop it anywhere in a phrase. Languages tend to have more rules than that.
Nope, sorry. Same usage. Read until the end. It’s respectable to have a little humility in the face of contradictory evidence :)
> Languages tend to have more rules than that
This is a common misconception about language - to think that it has many strict rules. It’s a frankly elitist take and Chomsky, the most prominent contemporary linguist, disagrees. See my other comment for a talk by Chomsky to develop a better understanding of language
If/when you write documentation/work communication, you just throw words in and don't wonder if anyone will understand you?
Bit of an exaggeration, don’t you think?
Every single person has a language that’s unique to them, and there’s a tremendous amount of both redundancy and context, cultural and situational, that need to exist to convey meaning.
Obviously increasing deviation from the “standard” lexicon or “laws” of universal grammar would at some point fail to convey any meaning whatsoever, but given the context of this discussion, we’re not discussing egregious violations - merely creative and valid use of existing words which, if you read the other comments, is already standard in industry.
My role frequently requires me to explain nuanced technical details to less technical folks or those with differing technical expertise. Even in the same building, between native English speaking coworkers using language in a fully “standard” way, when sharing ideas, there needs to be a back and forth discussion to reduce ambiguity and converge into a commonly held mental abstraction for whatever it is being discussed.
Don’t believe me? Why do you think legalese exists? Legalese should be the culmination of precision in conveying meaning, but even with legalese, it’s up to the value systems and judgements of courts and judges to interpret the law.
Language is complicated. Try not to be too uptight about it. Have a beer. Relax.
That's just you changing the topic and flamebaiting into arguing about grammar.
The matter is that OP hasn't made any great mistake (or any mistake, I believe) by saying 'learnings'. It was unnecessary and off topic to correct them. This should have ended there.