"As another high school English teacher, here’s my take: Unlike ‘awesome’, ‘epic’ isn’t a particularly useful word in its main sense. (And it never meant “truly amazing.”) When did anyone describe anything as epic besides the Odyssey and the occasional really long movie? As an English teacher, this slang redefinition is a boon. Since ‘epic’ now means “really cool in a beyond-other-things sort of way”, when you do teach a REAL epic, it will automatically be cool, because it is, by definition, epic. And when the kids read it, and realize that what happens to the main character is even more epic than anything they’ve ever called epic, the book will be even better to them."

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