It's Sunday morning as I write this, and my weeklong adventure at Fincon 2022 in Orlando has come to an end. I'm exhausted. As has become customary, I didn't actually attend any workshops or keynotes or breakout sessions here at Fincon. Instead, I spent the entire week connecting with friends: I enjoyed chatting with Rob Berger about how he's managed to grow his excellent YouTube channel from
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- Trump suffers cold dose of reality with Gaetz failure, but learned lessons are questionable
Donald Trump's reported admission that he was unable to move enough senators to support Matt Gaetz, his first pick to serve as attorney general, might seem like an early lesson in the limits of his ...
11/21/2024 - 4:42 pm | View Link - 10 lessons I've learned from the open-source community that aren't about tech
You might think the only lessons to learn from the open-source environment are technical, but you'd be mistaken.
11/17/2024 - 6:53 pm | View Link - More
- word choice
4. To learn of something means to discover its existence (the depth of knowledge is restricted to knowing the thing exists). For example, if I learn of the meteor shower tonight, all I know is that there will be a meteor shower tonight. To learn about something means to discover any amount of knowledge of the thing (the exact depth of knowledge ...
11/21/2024 - 9:16 am | View Website - american english
Merriam-Webster marks learnt as "chiefly British", and Wiktionary as "UK", adding that learned is the "Standard US English spelling". Quoting a linguist's comment from elsewhere, [The Corpus of Historical American English] shows that learned has always been more common than learnt in American English. At least, since 1810.
11/20/2024 - 9:42 pm | View Website - etymology
Learned is an adjective, and implies the past tense. "He learned" is perfectly valid. By using the word as an adjective "He is a learned man." It implies that He learned something at some point in the past. Hence, the term: "a learned man". (The origin being something along the lines of: "a well-learned man".) –
11/20/2024 - 2:25 pm | View Website - learn how to [verb] vs. learn to [verb]
He learned to put the car in the garage. The clausal object of learn here is (for him) to put the car in the garage . Note, first, that the subject of the verb put in the subordinate clause is the same as the subject of the verb learn in the main clause: for him (which consists of the infinitive complementizer for and the subject him ) has been ...
11/20/2024 - 2:18 pm | View Website - Which is proper usage: "What I've Learned" or "What I learned"?
What I learned today was that I like asparagus. What I learned during the 2 week course was invaluable.... whereas "what I've learned" is more general, or at least refers to a longer time period, eg.: What I've learned in life is to avoid poisonous snakes. What I've learned at college is that kids don't like to learn.
11/19/2024 - 12:58 am | View Website - More
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