So Epic, Bro

“Epic” is a word that gets tossed around a lot these days.  Surely you’ve noticed.  People will use it as an adjective all the time, often as a synonym for “awesome” or something of the sort.  There’s even a game developer called Epic Games -- but for the most part, I suppose this is a fair evolution.  In a world where CG in movies and graphics engines in games can make worlds come alive and explosions several dozen times more fiery, it’s probably going to get even harder to find a good description for that sweet action scene from that one movie.  Or any given guitar solo from the metal band of your choice.

Okay, I admit I just mentioned that to have an excuse to post some metal.  Can you blame me?

But I can’t shake the feeling that maybe, just maybe, we should make better use of the word.  If we label everything as “epic” so haphazardly, then we might end up losing more than just a battle to preserve such sacred semantics.

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