EPIC

[dddaver]

I'm not normally affected by language use and really not a member (he said MEMBER, doh!) of the grammar police, but the overuse of the word EPIC by young kids is now bleeding over into the media. Mostly it's because they think it'll up ratings. I guess the media is trying to be "hip" or find common grounds but it's just annoying. The "Iliad" was an epic. A stupid car crash is not.

The word for "cannabis" was bastardized into marijuana. So many words are used incorrectly so come to mean something else than their common usage. It's just my humble opinion here but I find that one particularly annoying. Carry on.

 

[Anita Bonghit]

powerful

 

[e4ian]

twitchy!

..s'all the same at the end of the day.imo

 

[BlueBlazer]

This thread is epic!

 

[Retardo Motabon]

yeah,alot of kids don't have the attention span for anything epic.
Anyway, how can a grow be epic? this bugs me! ganja plants are annuals. (OK, some of Tom Hills trees befit the title)
A century plant: now that is epic! It grows for about a 100 years, flowers to produce offspring, then dies.
Another few that drive me crazy are:
"really?"
or
"seriously?"
or
"Are you mad bro?"
RM

 

[Anita Bonghit]

"are you serious?"

'hilarious'

 

[kmk420kali]

Yeah, because we all have never re-invented words, right??
Slang is, has always been, and will always be the key to linguistic progression--
Glad we still aren't speaking in King James English!!

 

[Wiggs Dannyboy]

IMHO....

 

[Retardo Motabon]

Why the flames bro? Ya mad bro? Why ya hating on us bro?
thanks for the lesson on slang, I'm new to language other than wolf speak.
RM

 

[In~Plain~Site]

Sometimes Epic is necessary

 

[dddaver]

This thread is epic!

I knew somebody would say that. B..B..B..BRILLIANT!

And nobody is haten' on nobody "brah". How we related again? I just love being told by somebody else what I think when they're so far off. And why is it he thinks he's some representative of whatever it is he thinks he's representing? I said my opinion about what's happening to our language. If you take it personally that's YOUR problem. Think and do whatever you want. I couldn't care less dude.

 

[kmk420kali]

And nobody is haten' on nobody "brah". How we related again? I just love being told by somebody else what I think when they're so far off. And why is it he thinks he's some representative of whatever it is he thinks he's representing? I said my opinion about what's happening to our language. If you take it personally that's YOUR problem. Think and do whatever you want. I couldn't care less dude.

I think he was talking to me...but he is still far off the mark-- I wasn't hating, just explaining my view, as you were also--
Some ppl just have a hard time at convo--

 

[Zen Master]

this sums it up

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

 

[TrichyTrichy]

Epic could end up like the word Silly.

Silly originally meant an inward condition;blessed. Now, an outward term,fool.

 

[Guest50138]

Bodacious

 

[MrBluntfaced]

I'm not normally affected by language use and really not a member (he said MEMBER, doh!) of the grammar police, but the overuse of the word EPIC by young kids is now bleeding over into the media. Mostly it's because they think it'll up ratings. I guess the media is trying to be "hip" or find common grounds but it's just annoying. The "Iliad" was an epic. A stupid car crash is not.

The word for "cannabis" was bastardized into marijuana. So many words are used incorrectly so come to mean something else than their common usage. It's just my humble opinion here but I find that one particularly annoying. Carry on.

Language never evolves if we don't change it and adapt to that change....I s'pose you'd say things like, "Where art thou?" were bastardized into things like "Where are you?" ... eh?

IMHO words have whatever meaning the people using them give 'em. If phonetically a word is the same in two different languages, but has completely different meanings in each of those languages - who is anyone to say one of those definitions are wrong? I think they can both be right, because as I said, words mean what we say they do.

I bet there are MANY words in the english language that if you said them in each of the united states, would be received in 20-30 different ways.

 

[BlueBlazer]

Language is always evolving. Sometimes it's pretty easy to misunderstand someone's meaning. A smile works in any language though. Just saying.

I have read the Iliad and the Odyssey, yet I still like to use words like epic and legendary.

and some other words too . . .

 

[gloryoskie]

Repudiate.

 

[Bionic]

 

[dddaver]

Just for clarification:

slang

1    /slæŋ/ Show Spelled[slang] Show IPA
–noun 1. very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road.

2. (in English and some other languages) speech and writing characterized by the use of vulgar and socially taboo vocabulary and idiomatic expressions.

3. the jargon of a particular class, profession, etc

And in today's words, I ain't "butt-hurt" or someone might say "U mad". No, not all. I'm just trying right to get something right. I got my bachelor's in education and I kinda prefer feeling I was being told right after all that work, and that I also tell people the right thing. Using the accepted word like that is language misuse, not slang. Slang is usually a totally made up word. I suppose you can look at it whatever way you want though and the definition can fit what you want it to.

But I especially got a kick out of the guy who wanted to school me on how slang has always been around and used throughout the ages. In the words of the late great Dandy Don Meredith, "That's a firm grasp of the obvious you got there." Someone not quite so witty (like me) might have said something like, "No shit Sherlock".