{"id":19583,"date":"2009-01-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/01\/06\/microspeak-learnings\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T10:00:00","slug":"microspeak-learnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090106-00\/?p=19583","title":{"rendered":"Microspeak: Learnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If things you teach are <i>teachings<\/i>, then things you learn must be <i>learnings<\/i>, right? Good Microspeak citations for this word are hard to find since the word is rarely used in a sentence; it&#8217;s just a heading in a slide presentation. I found dozens of presentations that had a slide titled <i>Learnings from XYZ<\/i>, or, for those who want to sound really fancy, <i><u>Key<\/u> Learnings from XYZ<\/i>, but very few actual sentences. Here are two:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> Alice will send an email to Bob with regards to any learnings from the XYZ program being incented to do ABC. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> What are our key learnings for this project? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> There&#8217;s that word <i>key<\/i> again, along with a surprise appearance of <i>incent<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p> And that second citation barely counts since it&#8217;s really just a prose version of the slide heading! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If things you teach are teachings, then things you learn must be learnings, right? Good Microspeak citations for this word are hard to find since the word is rarely used in a sentence; it&#8217;s just a heading in a slide presentation. I found dozens of presentations that had a slide titled Learnings from XYZ, or, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,103],"class_list":["post-19583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>If things you teach are teachings, then things you learn must be learnings, right? Good Microspeak citations for this word are hard to find since the word is rarely used in a sentence; it&#8217;s just a heading in a slide presentation. I found dozens of presentations that had a slide titled Learnings from XYZ, or, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}