What's the biggest fail in your writing?

Just want to talk slightly offtopic...

Please tell what's you biggest writing fail in your life?
Maybe some mistype or f-word in a Shakespeare essay, or something...

This is your first post? Are you gathering stories to publish on a Fail blog? If I tell you about the time that I used the word semen in an English essay and so offended the teacher that she asked the dean to switch me to a different teacher, is it going to come back to haunt me? (Actually, semen was very appropriate in the context of the essay and the dean agreed, but the teaser is more intriguing than the actual story).

This does sort of raise the question of why you want this information. It could be a very interesting thread, though, if you can convince people that their posts won't find their way onto other sites.

Deleted: Plagiarized.

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Isn't there a forum rule which states that material from other sites should not be copy and pasted onto this one?

Don't you mean "worst error"? One's biggest failing would be one's most common problem or error rather than an egregious one-time mistake.

Either meaning would make an interesting thread.

Fail is slang. When you do something stupid, you fail. When you hurt yourself, you fail. In teenage vernacular, it is a way to rudely point out others' less-than perfect moments. Yelling "You fail!" or "Epic fail!" is a cruel way of bringing attention to someone's misfortune. When I think about it, "fail," as used by teens, is more of an interjection (kind of like WTF, OMG, epic, or woot).

So ... the grammar isn't the best in the original post making the meaning unclear, but I believe that the author is using "fail" in the slang. I still can't figure out what the author is after though. Why this as a first post?

Oh, duh -- I just read about that slang usage of fail. I ought to have recognized it in practice.

No worries, Simone. If you went around saying, "This sentence is a comma splice. Fail!" you wouldn't have the same esteem in my eyes. It originated with the on-line gaming community. I don't see you playing on-line games (okay, I can see you playing on-line Scrabble, but I would doubt if those players would use fail in the same way).

I did it for lulz.

Just want to read some funny stories like the story about semen.

Promise I won't repost....

ohps didnt know that...
didnt think it was that big of a deal but okay

One of my worst fails was when my class was prompted to write in first person about our summer (this was 5th grade remind you) and I thought first person meant using words as if you were talking... ohhh yeeaauh. "So then we went to the store and stuff and I was like ohmahgod look at that, isn't that like mad cool and stuff... for real check that stuff out like oh yeah".

I know it sounds like a youth mistake but I was so embarrassed when she read it in from of the class.

That's funny.