LEARNT is not a word!!! I had to finally speak up out of frustration after reading TOO many times on the internet of the WRONG spelling of a simple spelling word of LEARNED being spelled as LEARNT by supposed smart intellects......just how I cringe when a supposed smart liberal talking head on TV pronounces supposedly as supposaBLY
This post was edited by Redsox16 at May 10, 2017 9:56 PM MDT
"Learnt" is indeed a word. Learnt and learned are alternative forms of the past tense and past participle of the verb "Learn".
Both are acceptable, but learned is often used in both British English and American English, while learnt is much more common in British English than in American English.
Here are some examples: 1 "Many people who support Trump have not learnt the difference between your and you're." 2 "Many people who voted for Trump have learned what buyer's remorse is and wish they voted for Bernie Sanders."
The Oxford English Dictionary can't be wrong on this https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/learnt-vs-learned
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at April 25, 2017 5:56 AM MDT
Hmm. Might be question on how one defines expectations.
You don't expect anything from people you showed kindness? They can show you any aggression if that's how they feel like? I'd say, if I show kindness to someone, which I do a lot, I do expect they are civil with me.
I'm bewildered, how did you jump from kindness to aggression? And my expectations are in general based on the situation. In a random interaction with a stranger, usually a customer at work, just an acknowledgement in enough. In an interaction with someone I know there might be a different expectation. For instance, last year I gave a coworker's son a birthday gift which was never even acknowledged. So I would not in the future give a gift. But at work, I work in food service in a hospital, a customer may be distracted and stressed with other concerns. So if I go unacknowledged I can accept that.
I was not trying to belittling your efforts being a kind person. I have seen other sides of you here. But nevertheless I do believe what you say. I don't think we will get closer to an understanding and instead of adding more that can be misunderstood I think it's better to plain stop the discussion here.
I made a reply for the OP using quid pro quo challenging the idea behind it as how it's used in modern society. I will leave it at that.
In the UK, a "quid" is slang for a pound sterling. In negotiations with the printing union, the NGA some years ago, my managing director offered the negotiating team a "quid pro quo" (so far unspecified) for some act of performance improvement.
This was immediately conveyed back to the workforce as an offer of an extra pound a day, about a 3% wage increase, on top of the normal annual cost-of-living wage rise, which was not at all what my MD intended.
In explaining to the union leaders what "quid pro quo" actually meant, he nearly caused a strike.
Benedict Arnold 