I should probably start this with a link to the probable cause of the phenomenon, the failblog, but I won't - I'm not visiting them anymore, simply because about 40% of the items shown there are ads for their other sites (which worked - I'm visiting a few of those weekly).
Anyway, I proclaim my mild disgust at people who use the word "epic" to augment whatever they want to say (just like they'd say, in some other age, "swell", "groovy", "super", "great" or whichever mot de jour was the fashion of the year). They do so, despite
Anyway, I proclaim my mild disgust at people who use the word "epic" to augment whatever they want to say (just like they'd say, in some other age, "swell", "groovy", "super", "great" or whichever mot de jour was the fashion of the year). They do so, despite
- not knowing what epic is
- not knowing what other kind exists (lyric)
- not knowing a kind of what is it (poetry)
- having never ever read more than a page of epic poetry, and even that from Cliff's notes
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