http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/01/epithets.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=epithets Thinking the unthinkable, pondering the imponderable, effing the ineffable and scruting the inscrutable Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/01/epithets.html#comment-42849 Siobhan Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:35:12 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/01/epithets.html#comment-42849 I think that whilst there aren't much in modern use unless, as you say, they're used in jest. There is, however, a real move in fiction, role-play and world-building to bring back epithets. Even in something as popular as Harry Potter the epithet "The Half-Blood Prince" and in the Song of Ice and Fire "The Imp" and "Kingslayer" are prominent figures that are from the same family. I think that whilst there aren’t much in modern use unless, as you say, they’re used in jest. There is, however, a real move in fiction, role-play and world-building to bring back epithets. Even in something as popular as Harry Potter the epithet “The Half-Blood Prince” and in the Song of Ice and Fire “The Imp” and “Kingslayer” are prominent figures that are from the same family.

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