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Things that are "disaster[s] of epic proportions": floods, genocide, NSA spying

Things that are not: fucking betas of mobile telephone software



dis·as·ter (d-zstr, -ss-) n. [...] 2. Informal: A total failure: The dinner party was a disaster. [...]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/disaster


Your use of the word 'epic' was juvenile exaggeration, or illiteracy. Appealing to 'informal usage' when trying to express criticism is also juvenile or illiterate. And WTF is the free dictionary? The only source you could find to echo your mangling of English?


Your use of the word illiterate was juvenile exaggeration




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