That pizza was epic!
The after-prom party was epic.
Epic sex.
Really?!
I would love to get on my soapbox and tell people as a matter of fact the word doesn’t mean what they think it means – mostly due to my personal annoyance with its overuse, but I doubt I have a leg (or a soapbox) to stand on.
Let me know if you agree with this:
Overuse = Meaningless
(Think: That song you hear on the radio that’s played into the ground)
Any effort on my part to clear this matter up would be an epic fail. (See what I did there?) Put the two words together and you have a meaningless catch phrase.
Did you know that “epic” made Dictionary [dot] com’s list of “The Worst Words of 2012”? (Made the same list the three prior years) It was also voted one of “7 Annoying Words That Should Die A Horrible Death” by 101books [dot] net.
Yet “epic” refuses to be banished. {Click to Tweet}
Fizzle published a post earlier this year entitled, “Write Epic Shit”. I’d like to tell the author/s of Fizzle I don’t write “shit”, let alone epic shit.
Pinterest is a breeding ground for “epic”. You can pin any number of artful versions of “Do Epic Shit”.
Like what?!
Discover the fountain of youth? Take a vacation in a parallel universe? Find the cure for the common cold? Put a stop to all the wars?
Want some examples of what’s EPIC?
Oceans.The Cosmos. Beowulf (Takes most people a few days to read the oldest surviving epic poem of Old English, consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines). Ernest Shackleton and his crew surviving their Antarctic voyage.
I’m sure you get my drift. I mean, really. Let’s be honest.
Have you ever met another human being who’s done anything truly epic? I haven’t. And I hang out with some exceptionally smart cookies whose brilliance and creativity is unsurpassed.
And while we’re on the subject of misused and overused words:
Ditto for at the end of the day and the grand champion, awesome. Oy!
I don’t generally encourage readers to leave my blog but today is an exception. If you’re a small biz builder or word nerd, like me, sprint over to Mission: Storytelling. This month’s word carnival is exploring jibber-jabber nonsense words that have come to be a nuisance for legitimate business people and the elixir of life for the more unscrupulous snake oil salesmen in our midst.
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