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This reply seems to be replying to a "survivor" but the parent doesn't seem one. It's actually replying to a non-survivor who "failed" in parent's own words, or
by ndr 5y ago
This reply seems to be replying to a "survivor" but the parent doesn't seem one. It's actually replying to a non-survivor who "failed" in parent's own words, or "did not have luck" in yours.
Is it any more ok to talk this way for non-survivors?
- martincmartin 5y agoI take it as -- using the word "fail" to mean you don't finish your Ph.D. is the word a survivor (say, professor) would use. Even though grandparent didn't survive in academia, they're still using the terminology associated with that. Namely, that not becoming a professor is somehow failing.