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Re:12 Learnings As a Startup CEO (Jobster, ~$48m in VC) by whacked_new on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:59PM (#99519)
Part of speech in English is determined by word order. If you attach "s" to "learning" it simply forces it to become a noun. It's not proper in the books, but neither was "Google" a verb 10 years ago.
Re:12 Learnings As a Startup CEO (Jobster, ~$48m in VC) by sabat on Monday January 21, 2008 @12:06PM (#101636)
While I agree that you're right -- English is not an especially logical language, and one that is quite fluid -- I think what I'm really hoping is that ugly corporatisms like "learnings" and "planful" don't get their ugly roots very deep. I'm also arguing that "learnings" is unnecessary (as is "pushback" and "monetizing") because we already have words for the idea.