Antoon Pardon wrote:
>> a) In English, "learning curve" is not restricted to a mathematical
>> plot--Webster's also defines it as "the course of progress made in
>> learning something". In that context, adding the adjective steep
>> ("extremely or excessively high...STEEP implies such sharpness of
>> pitch that ascent or descent is very difficult") makes sense.
>
> How much sense does it really make? Suppose we would talk about
> an income curve. Would you not prefer a steep curve over a shalow
> one? What about a productivity curve? It is all about the progress
> made in something.
I don't think I have seen "steep learning curve" used in that sense
prior to reading your post. I have seen it being used as "what a steep
cliff to climb!" (i.e. would would have been much easier with a
"flatter" one). OTOH, I just went to an (Am.) English school my first
school year, and language is not one of my fields of interest. So I'll
just shut up and go away.
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Jan Danielsson
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