Cool people: Please expand your respective vocabularies. You all have a pattern of taking a great word from the English language, saying it in a creative way, and then forsaking that word. Next, the word is cast upon the wannabe cool masses who proceed to overuse, bastardize, rape, pillage, plunder and annihilate it, just because it sounded clever back when they heard you said it.
A perfect example is what’s happening to the word “epic” right now. It has been used by cool people over the course of the calendar year. Now, people have begun the process of overuse, applying “epic” to things that are totally not epic.
I got an email from a party promoter recently, saying “Yesterday’s party was epic!” No. Yesterday’s party was NOT epic! I was there, you lying motherf*cker! Now, had the bartenders at the party started paying me to drink, then yes, that would have been epic. If an Arab woman and an Israeli woman were about to kill each other, and I eased religious and ethnic tensions by having a threesome with them, that would have made your party epic too. Neither of these things happened. It was music, liquor, and people dancing. Nothing more, nothing less.
Let me give you all a clear definition of the word “epic” followed by examples of it’s use:
Epic – (adj) noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Leon’s blog is an epic sh*t-show of comedic greatness
2. resembling or suggesting such poetry: an epic tale about a stripper working to better her life, making that money, but not letting the money make her
3. heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic exploits of the man holding a baby tiger in the header photo of this website
4.of unusually great size or extent: my penis is epic. Yes, that actually IS what she said.
So there you have it. There are plenty of words that you can substitute for epic the next time you want to describe how awesome something was. Here are a few fun ones to consider: Monumental! Unbelieveable! Supercalifragilistic! Un-f*ck-wittable! Life-altering! Fantastic! Take your pick. I like to say “of Biblical proportions” because it makes it sould like whatever just happened is up there with parting the Red Sea, turning water into wine, or putting two of every animal on Earth on one motherf*ckin’ boat.
I just don’t want to witness the word epic take the same path of overuse as words like “swagger” and “hater.” Please, cool people of the world, let’s figure out a way to nip this in the bud, and save epic before too many fake-it-till-you-make-it, wannabe cool people effectively ruin it.
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i associate “life altering” with STD transmission.. thats just me tho
Yeah, usually “life-altering” is followed up by something not good! LOL
LLS, too late for epic, and fail LOL SMH
You might can add “thirsty” too, I personally put that in rotation circa 03 , no applause, LOL
Folk are dusting off words used in the gay community forever though like its new, such as “gave me life” that phrase or variations of it have been around since the 80′s, a close cousin is a part of “the family” LOL
Also “child please” is another.
True. I need to add “fail” to the list. I’m kind of tired of hearing “gave me life” too!
You gotta say though… Hater had a GOOD run. (Yes, I have been known to use this word…)
“an epic tale about a stripper working to better her life, making that money, but not letting the money make her”
Hilarious.
Yeah, I still use hater, although it’s been in heavy rotation for something like 15 years now
People need to stop misusing the vocabulary word that mean something. How about pulling a Jesse Jackson and just inventing a word. It works with ain’t, fen to, bout, and other country words that people still say till this day and time.
“Swagger/Swag” has gotten old and played. And if I don’t ever have to hear the phrase “Grown & Sexy” again, I can die a happy man.