A Teeny Tiny Fail

19 Responses to A Teeny Tiny Fail

1. Carlos Mal on October 12th, 2008 at 4:08 am

   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?

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2. Anwell on October 12th, 2008 at 4:11 am

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

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   • JG on October 12th, 2008 at 4:50 am

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

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

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3. Rufus on October 12th, 2008 at 5:52 am

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

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4. Ronny on October 12th, 2008 at 6:35 am

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

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5. Dialup Avatar Jones on October 12th, 2008 at 8:25 am

   Also comma splice.

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6. Metalnoir on October 12th, 2008 at 10:39 am

   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.

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7. SirFailALot on October 12th, 2008 at 11:58 am

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

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8. L on October 12th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

   “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?

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   • Anonymous on November 18th, 2008 at 9:35 pm

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

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9. rrr on October 12th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

   Meh

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10. jen on October 12th, 2008 at 6:08 pm

    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’.

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    • nicole on October 12th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

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

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11. rk on October 12th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

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

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12. Nightstallion on October 13th, 2008 at 4:59 am

    “comma splice” is not a fail. ;p

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13. Carlos Mal on October 13th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

    Weak fail, then?

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14. Eisenstein on October 14th, 2008 at 5:39 am

    You’re all a bunch of jerks.

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    • Ops on October 24th, 2008 at 1:11 pm

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

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15. Cale on November 27th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

    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

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