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> A better question would be, why do you think you did not succeed. Is that a different question than "why you failed?" from the GP?

• TylerE 7y ago
  Yes. "Why you failed?" implies they did something _dumb_, as opposed to simply not doing something genius.
  • aae42 7y ago
    fail "literally" means to be unsuccessful it implies doing something dumb as much as 'not succeeding' ... which is to say, not at all