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Re:Jessica Livingston’s Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail by castis on Thursday June 09, 2016 @04:03PM (#11871935)
Incorrect, the weakest possible support would have been me just backing up the idea with my own words, which is not what happened. If you need further proof then that is your burden, not mine.
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Re:Jessica Livingston’s Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail by smacktoward on Thursday June 09, 2016 @05:05PM (#11872374)
OK, I'll bite.

* http://grammarist.com/usage/learnings/

* http://www.johnsmurf.com/jargon.htm

* http://www.dailywritingtips.com/what-the-heck-are-learnings/

* http://customerthink.com/16_marketing_terms_to_ban_in_2011/

* http://valleywag.gawker.com/dear-dummies-learnings-is-not-a-...

* http://www.ragan.com/Main/Articles/9_completely_pointless_co...

Learnings is a plural version of a singular noun that does not exist. And there's already a perfectly good word you can use to get at what it attempts to communicate, namely lessons. (You can even call them lessons learned if you absolutely must shoehorn the idea of learning in there.)

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Re:Jessica Livingston’s Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail by logingone on Thursday June 09, 2016 @05:49PM (#11872650)
I think that would have been an absence of support.
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