Failure(s)
Posted: July 20th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
According to the thesaurus I use:
“Failure:
Definition: lack of success
Synonyms: abortion, bankruptcy, bomb, botch, breakdown, bungle, bust, checkmate, collapse, decay, decline, defeat, deficiency, deficit, deterioration, downfall, failing, false step, faux pas, fiasco, flash in the pan, flop, frustration, implosion, inadequacy, lead balloon, lemon, loser, loss, mess, misadventure, miscarriage, misstep, nonperformance, nonsuccess, overthrow, rout, rupture, sinking ship, stalemate, stoppage, total loss, turkey, washout, wreck
Antonyms: accomplishment, achievement, attainment, earnings, gain, merit, success, win“
Why do I blog this? writing a paper about design research and failures, looking for inspiring material and vocabulary.
hey nic
failure is one of the great thought threads of our time. it’s also terribly fun as a subject. i remember a great issue of cabinet magazine came out a while ago on the same theme. you should check it out:
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/7/index.php
salut!
m
One way that I personally like looking for new insights and perspectives on a topic is to come up with key words and then do a search in other languages for that language’s word then do some basic linguistic work to see the origins of that word.