Among academics, the word planful is used to describe someone methodical or skilled at planning. Whether this term catches on in the same way that the count nouns learnings has remains to be seen. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Planful”
Boy, I am trying to wrap my mind around this word because I heard some academics using it, but
the word is planful. Is this something they talk about at learnings when they’re doing teachings?
Yeah, maybe they were talking about it in a very positive way, saying this person is planful.
Full of plans? Full of ideas?
Yeah, methodical and yes, yes, thinking ahead.
They’re planful.
Yeah, and apparently this is a word that is being used more and more.
I won’t use it, but I appreciate that it conforms to standard English morphology.
It’s a perfectly good way to make a word.
It’s comprehensible when you hear it.
If you read it, you would know what it meant, but it’s not for me, I don’t think.
Not for me, but let’s give it a few years.
Yeah.
I think it may stick around.
The reason I said learnings and teachings is because those are two education words that I will never use those.
They’re just not for me.
I didn’t need to make those into count nouns in that way.
