Learnings is irritating to me. The way kids use the word aesthetic is irritating too. I wonder if I might be that old man shaking his fist at the clouds, but I have gotten over begs the question, and literally, so maybe not yet...
A lesson would be a specific learning activity happening at a specific place and time, administered by a person more knowledgeable than you; like a teacher or mentor "giving a lesson".
If you're fine with the generalized form "learned a lesson", then surely "learnings" is fine too. There's no point in trying to police a completely normal and sensible use of language.
Anyway, I accept this usage of the word "lesson", so I also accept "learnings". My point was one of hypocrisy, not policing people in how they can use the word "lesson".
Way back, one of my uni projects was to write a C to MIPS32 compiler. Why? Because the lecturer was a big fan of MIPS. I've never needed to touch anything related to MIPS since.
Various forms of popups, using catchy names. All popups are evil. We learned this in the 1990s. It is utterly shameful that today's webdevs have resurrected them.
It's pretty much the worst; you bring a child to this world without their consent. And the kid will live through the death of their parents, and then unavoidably die themselves. Read about antinatalism
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