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How is this fail? “Inform our products” is a pretty widely used phrase in marketing/research and development.
Yep. It’s a completely acceptable use of the word. From Mirriam-Webster online:
inform:
2 a: to give character or essence to b: to be the characteristic quality of : animate
Merriam-Webster, you mean.
Fail
I don’t see a fail here, but it is Monday morning. If it’s the use of the word “inform”, I use it in that context all of the time.
How is this NOT a fail? They should have said improve, not inform. Inform our future product makes no sense unless there product has intelligence and can understand them.
Actually, the word “inform” is used this way in many academic and technical contexts.
inform future practices
inform future policy
inform future technology
inform future efforts
I guess the “fail” is facebook not watering down the technical language? Btw, I wonder if anyone is keeping track of the English Fail Blog failure rate?
No, sorry. The fail here is with the idiots who don’t understand that “inform our products” is a perfectly legitimate phrase that is widely used in the business world, not with Facebook.
Oops. I hate it when I use the wrong ‘there’. I meant their product, not there product. Sorry.
Is that Warren from CSI? Looks like him………
You mean Warrick Brown? His name isn’t Warren… And I doubt Gary Dourdan has a facebook.
ohhhh snap….is this a CSI character recognition fail??
Another English Fail Blog fail. Let this inform future literary critics to check the Dictionary before posting comment.
nicely done!
It makes sense. Sorry Emily: “Your” a dumbass.
I’m thinking submissions should be moderated somehow. It seems only the most blatant “fails” are in fact fails. I haven’t done the math, but I’d guess 20% of these posts are actually correct. They are misunderstood by submitters and the blog’s author.
“This isn’t a fail because business uses these terms.”
Well, business can never be wrong, can it? Business never makes up stupid buzzwords that everybody laughs at, does it? “[I]nform our future products” doesn’t sound like you’re talking to a chair does it?
Let’s be synergistic about this and really push the envelope of linguistic error for the next office-based grammar misfunction.
This isn’t a fail because English uses this term. Check Merriam-Webster’s definition for inform, which includes “to give character or essence to”, with the example usage “the principles which inform modern teaching”. This is separate from the meaning “to communicate knowledge to”, which is also listed.
LOL. Can you see your colon? Your head’s far enough up your butt that it should be easy.
Synergistic THIS! *Grabs Crotch*
Wow, it must be really embarrassing for all the self-righteous idiots who storm in here and say “Well actually this really is a fail, lol, you fail too” when they find out that APPROXIMATELY 2 SECONDS OF GOOGLING/READING A DICTIONARY WOULD MAKE THEM STFU
“Hey, future product! I wanted to let you know what’s going on.”
Yes, it’s a fail. Dictionaries (and especially Webster’s) tend to endorse the worst, most trendy usages … I wouldn’t use them as a gauge for what’s good English.
Ahah, the poster got owned by people with market research knowledge