The word "Epic"

falstaff78

falstaff78

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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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Anyone who reads this will never misuse the word "epic" again

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=epic
 
Sudacafan

Sudacafan

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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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Epic as noun as a loooong poem or a long literature work is really unknown to me.
Epic = just long?
Epic Bible?
Epic James Joyce's Ulysses?
Epic Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, a.k.a. Remembrance of Things Past?
Maybe we should move this discussion to Odds and Ends section.

They may be epic but not just for being looooong.
Epic telephone directories...
 
Azure

Azure

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Sudacafan said:
Epic as noun as a loooong poem or a long literature work is really unknown to me.
Epic = just long?
Epic Bible?
Epic James Joyce's Ulysses?
Epic Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, a.k.a. Remembrance of Things Past?
Maybe we should move this discussion to Odds and Ends section.

They may be epic but not just for being looooong.
Epic telephone directories...
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But but but telephone directories are not poetic!
 
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This is happening.
This was prophesied in the Torah, too.
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Azure

Azure

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Hydrocella said:
Collateral Damage
Killing of civilians.

Insurgent
Militia member trying to overthrow the government you don’t want in place

Freedom Fighter
Militia member trying to overthrow the government you want in place.

Downsize
Fire employees.

Austerity
Fire government employees - nurses, social workers, teachers.

Healthy Forests
Cut down trees, planned logging.

Clear Skies
Initiative removing the restrictions on businesses which pollute the air.

Embedded
Journalists controlled/censored journalists.

Revenue Enhancement
Higher taxes.

Pre-owned
Used.

...amongst 100’s of others.
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Wow loaded!
 
hoodjem

hoodjem

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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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Yep. Someone used it as a verb on here a few months ago.
 
clayqueen

clayqueen

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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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The English language is evolving. The other day I commented to someone that the noun 'nail' is now being used as a verb when people say "I nailed it."
 
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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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clayqueen said:
The English language is evolving. The other day I commented to someone that the noun 'nail' is now being used as a verb when people say "I nailed it."
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English is evolving...

...it was Federer who was horny.
 
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slice bh compliment

G.O.A.T.
clayqueen said:
The English language is evolving. The other day I commented to someone that the noun 'nail' is now being used as a verb when people say "I nailed it."
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Yes. The word "verb" used to be a noun.
Now, verb is totally beasting. Epickly. Now that we have gone and verbified everything nouny, it's a verb.

Verb verb verb. Verb is a verb.

Also, opposite day is errday. Literally. I mean, figuratively. I mean...literally.
 
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slice bh compliment said:
Yes. The word "verb" used to be a noun.
Now, verb is totally beasting. Epickly. Now that we have gone and verbified everything nouny, it's a verb.

Verb verb verb. Verb is a verb.

Also, opposite day is errday. Literally. I mean, figuratively. I mean...literally.
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slice bh compliment

G.O.A.T.
I use the word "gay" to mean happy.
I use figuratively instead of literally. When i use literally, i usually pronounce it litrelly. But i am American. Litrelly.

in 1980, i was a part of the small group responsible for the verbification of the word "party". It caught on, figuratively, like wildfire. Litrelly.

Literally just means really now. Like awesome means OK. Amazing means yeah whatevs.
 
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