Dictionary: Can You Use It?

[disdainful_soul]

Need a dictionary to go with your thesaurus, SMeyer?

sa·ga noun

1. a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.
2. any narrative or legend of heroic exploits.
3. Also called saga novel. a form of the novel in which the members or generations of a family or social group are chronicled in

Comments

[nimielle]

Wow, *lol* I haven't read any of Meyer's novels, but she's all over my f-list. Even my mum reads her. What made you write this post though? I am really curious. :D

[disdainful_soul]

I'm just sick of the misuse of the words "saga" and "epic" to describe a series of romance novels. It makes the classic major in me burn.

[nimielle]

Thanks for posting, I sort of knew -in the back of my head- what an epic was and that it was somewhat poetic, at least in the way it was presented, but I didn't know that it actually was a poem-like piece of writing. That's good to know. Makes me laugh even harder though at the description on the back of the German "300" DVD XD (an epic for a new generation) XD 300 is awesome, in the "so bad it's good" way naturally, but OMG I laughed soooo hard! XD /random

[raven_rising]

I think you should have included the defintion of fail, just for kicks. But yea...whose calling this an epic? What idiots.

Fail, verb.
-to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved.
-to be unsuccessful in the performance or completion of.

A few more of them fit, but these are two of them.

[disdainful_soul]

Fail
-to be Stephenie Meyer.

I keep getting that Simpsons episode where Homer's photo keeps bouncing around the dictionary.