[_bpo]

> 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]

Yes. "Why you failed?" implies they did something _dumb_, as opposed to simply not doing something genius.

[aae42]

fail "literally" means to be unsuccessful

it implies doing something dumb as much as 'not succeeding'

... which is to say, not at all