Talk:learning streak
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Tone/style. Doesn't seem like a very common phrase anyhow, and I'm not even sure the meaning is correct: a streak would be a series of successes, not of failures, right? Equinox ◑ 20:00, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
- One could have a losing streak, so streak in the sense of "a continuous series of like events" is not strictly positive. The etymology of learning streak is likely a play on words based on losing streak, though with the implied benefit of having learned from one's failures. I agree the phrase seems uncommon, and I'm not sure it would be immediately understood even by speakers familiar with losing streak and the humorous use of learn as in "to fail or face unfavorable consequences, but gain knowledge in the process" (not yet documented on Wiktionary). Rriegs (talk) 19:28, 12 July 2017 (UTC)