The word "Epic"

Azure

Azure

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Since we are all interested in languages here (see threads on Spanish speaking, English etc), I have come across the word "Epic" quite too often on TTW, something I have not come across in other places where more vocabulary is normally used.

A look at the Cambridge dictionary:

Epic used as a noun

Basically a looooooong poem

Epic used as an adjective

Heroic or grand in scale or character

So when one says Federer or Rafa are "epic" they essentially mean that they are looooooong poems.

Please use them in the correct form - as an adjective, as in : Rafa played an epic match.

Sorry, I seem to have too much time on my hands.
 
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Azure

Azure

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jimjam said:
You have time on your hands and you’re also wrong. Adjectives are fine in the form “person is X”

Example: Federer is horny.
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Sure, adjective qualifies a noun, so "Federer played an epic match" is correct or even Federer is epic although cambridge says only "informally"
 
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Azure said:
Since we are all interested in languages here (see threads on Spanish speaking, English etc), I have come across the word "Epic" quite too often on TTW, something I have not come across in other places where more vocabulary is normally used.

A look at the Cambridge dictionary:

Epic used as a noun

Basically a looooooong poem

Epic used as an adjective

Heroic or grand in scale or character

So when one says Federer or Rafa are "epic" they essentially mean that they are looooooong poems.

Please use them in the correct form - as an adjective, as in : Rafa played an epic match.

Sorry, I seem to have too much time on my hands.
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TTW is a modern day dialect of English, initially conceived in the epic, 1984.

Bad is good.
Freedom is slavery.
War is peace.
Ignorance is strength.

Welcome to NewSpeak, less is more.
 
Stretchy Man

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Azure said:
Sure, adjective qualifies a noun, so "Federer played an epic match" is correct or even Federer is epic although cambridge says only "informally"
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I'm confused. You say epic means grand in character, so what exactly is wrong with saying "Federer is epic"? :confused:
 
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Epic is simply a relative term, dictionary definitions aside.

Yesterday I did a 450 pound dead lift, no belt, for five reps. To me, it was just another day of being a complete savage in the gym, but those who were watching me were using the word and similar adjectives to describe what they were seeing...because I basically just went onto the next exercise without stopping or even breathing heavy, as if it was nothing. :)
 
Azure

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Hitman said:
Epic is simply a relative term, dictionary definitions aside.

Yesterday I did a 450 pound dead lift, no belt, for five reps. To me, it was just another day of being a complete savage in the gym, but those who were watching me were using the word and similar adjectives to describe what they were seeing...because I basically just went onto the next exercise without stopping or even breathing heavy, as if it was nothing. :)
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Now that is epic :)
 
Bender

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Hitman said:
Epic is simply a relative term, dictionary definitions aside.

Yesterday I did a 450 pound dead lift, no belt, for five reps. To me, it was just another day of being a complete savage in the gym, but those who were watching me were using the word and similar adjectives to describe what they were seeing...because I basically just went onto the next exercise without stopping or even breathing heavy, as if it was nothing. :)
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pffft you call that savage?

sureshs lifts 450 lbs all the time; he calls it "walking"
 
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Hitman said:
Epic is simply a relative term, dictionary definitions aside.

Yesterday I did a 450 pound dead lift, no belt, for five reps. To me, it was just another day of being a complete savage in the gym, but those who were watching me were using the word and similar adjectives to describe what they were seeing...because I basically just went onto the next exercise without stopping or even breathing heavy, as if it was nothing. :)
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You're obviously just a long, narrative poem (just the way I always imagined you to be). :)

This is an epic thread! :cool:
 
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Nouns usually have a particle in front of them (e.g. "Fedr is an epic" would mean that he's a long poem")
 
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