English FAIL Blog

What is the FAIL here? I gather that Henry and English FAIL Blog people probably haven’t heard about “Battleship Potemkin”. Eisenstein was a real person.

Or did I really miss the FAIL?

The Fail is in the Fact that is should be Einstein, not Eisenstein I think.

Maybe they’re referring to Sergei Eisenstein. Although, more than likely, they’re not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Eisenstein

Guess they are referring to the other Eisenstein (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Fledermaus)

Not really a fail since this name actually exists.
They could have wrote “Joe’s IQ” too…

Also comma splice.

Is the fail possibly the fact that the comma should be either a semicolon or a period (end of senetence with the new sentence begining with a capitalized “What”)?

I have no problem with the person being cited as Eisenstein as he was a brilliant director.

Yes, the real fail is the comma splice (two strong clauses separated by a comma). This is a pet peeve of mine.

“A Teeny Tiny Fail” obviously refers to the comma problem.

How do we know that some guy named Eisenstein doesn’t have an IQ of 160?

Meh

And I don’t think we should be using this website if we can’t use the correct form of the verb ‘write’. It definitely should have been ‘written’.

I’m confused… what exactly are you referring to?

‘”They could have wrote “Joe’s IQ” too…”‘ Written?

“comma splice” is not a fail. ;p

Weak fail, then?

You’re all a bunch of jerks.

Don’t worry, Eisenstein - *I* think you’re smart.

well it could also be refering to the possible mistake of the IQ #…

I was thinking of Ferdinand Eisenstein, whose name is attached to quite a number of things in mathematics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Eisenstein