atw: Re: Lessons learnt or Lessons learned?

Hi Ilana,
I'm interested to discover who is writing this document and what relation
this writer has to those who are alleged to have learned. I have found this
construction 'Lessons learnt' used mostly by teachers as some kind of
surrogate for not having checked what pupils did actually learn, ie, it's a
description of what the teacher hoped got across. For such cases, the better
construction would be 'teaching objectives' [the teacher's aims] or
'learning outcomes' [what the teacher hopes the learners will get].
Quite apart from whether a word is Old English or Middle English, a
different aim may be to use the fewest letters to convey a meaning clearly.
But the superior goal would be to use the language of the audience - based
on a recent, accurate user analysis that sits beside your keyboard.
Brian.

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