/lit/ - Literature

>Using adjectives
>Using adverbs

>ep•ic (ˈɛp Jk)
>adj. Also, ep′i•cal.
>1. of or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usu. centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style
>2. resembling or suggesting such poetry
>3. heroic; majestic; impressively great.
>4. of unusually great size or extent

>>4636089
>5. an image attached to an email

Just because the internet ruined the word doesn't mean the word shouldn't be used.

>>4636093
>Just because the internet ruined the word doesn't mean the word shouldn't be used.
I don't mind it being used, as long as it's used properly.

>>4636085
Epic is an adjective though.. What is this a meme or something?

>>4636127
It's also a noun. I guess OP would rather see it used only as that.

>>4636127
And when did it start being used as an adjective?
Around the same time 12 year olds and the internet were invented.

>>4636085
>americans who use british english

>whilst

>t'is

>semicolons

>adverbs implied by the verb, e.g. "ran quickly"

>>4636132
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=epic+proportions

durf.

what is this low hanging fruit day.

>>4636136
>Hating on semi-colons
Fuck you, guy.

>>4636162
kek

>tfw using epic as a verb

>>4636136
>Hating semicolons and our shitty sentence structure

As for the people that say shit like 'ti's', they're betas.

>>4636183
simply epic

>>4636177

you're probably one of those retards who insist on using semi-colons so much that you use them instead of regular colons.

fuck you.

no, really. fuck you so much. there is almost NEVER any reason to use semi-colons, so fucking don't.

"Don't use semicolons. They stand for absolutely nothing. They are transvestite hermaphrodites. They are just a way of showing off. To show that you have been to college."

>>4636224
Make me

>>4636296
>Mark Twain was dismissive of this punctuation and that somehow proves something
You speak in semicolons all the time, buddy.

>>4636136
0/10.

A semi-colon isn't a fucking stylistic device.

>>4636132
Well, it's derived from an Ancient Greek adjective so about 3000 years ago.

Reminder that if you know how to correctly use a semicolon you will never fuck more than 4 girls in your life

>>4636326
Doesn't matter. Semi-colons ruin style. Fucking plebs. No appreciation for decent prose.

>>4636340
If you don't know when and when not to use digits you'll never fuck more than two girls in your life.

>>4636349
Doesn't it depend on the format?

>>4636346
Are you implying that some of the greatest prose stylists of all time have not made extensive use of he semicolon?

>...
>no, just no

>>4636353
I suppose it depends on context. I just wish everyone on /lit/ wrote in a scholarly style.

>>4636136
You used e.g. wrong btw

>>4636366
>I just wish everyone on /lit/ wrote in a scholarly style.
o i am laffin

>>4636366
Ye gods, such shall not occur upon my watch.

>>4636366
Well sure but there's nothing wrong with 2 over two.

>>4636085

>people who can't handle the evolution of language

>>4636099

but "proper" use of a word changes over time

>>4636340

Holy shit, I've only fucked 4 girls in my life.......

>2014
>speaking of thousands of modern asshole languages instead of proto indo european

>>4636398

*one of thousands

>>4636370
No he didn't

>People who use 'awesome' as an adjective
>People who use 'radical' or 'rad' as an adjective
>People who use 'fantastic' as an adjective
>People who use 'terrific' as an adjective
>People who use 'stupendous' as an adjective

>>4636398
>MMXIV
>LINGVA DICTA TE LINGVAM LATINAM NON EST

>>4636428

what

>>4636428
Terrific post there.

>>4636326
There is no situation where a semicolon is necessary, period.

>>4636450
>>4636450
>There is no situation where a semicolon is necessary, period.

The semicolon exists in order to:
- cleanly end a list entry; and
- separate a thought which, in expression, might contain or be within a parenthetical; and
- to terminate statements in the C programming language.

Forget semicolons—almost no one uses them anyway—the worst is the overuse of parenthesis and em dashes (it just shows how lazy authors and editors are—they're a cop out for cluttered writing).

>>4636460
Terrific post there.

>>4636442
Super

>>4636460
*parentheses

>>4636460
i must not
refrain
but say
you had me
for too long

Hello?

>>4636515
racheldreyfus@yahoo.com

I've been trying to read Schophenhauer's Studies in Pessimism but the translation has 500 semicolons, almost all of which precede conjunctions

>>4636521
Got it

>>4636370
no he didn't you faggot
e.g. = for example
i.e. = in other words

>>4636318
that was Vonnegut you retard

>>4636527

>>4636370
no i didn't you fucking idiot

>>4636549
he also used a semicolon later in the same book and talked about it