The concept that precision in meaning isn’t important to writing is silly. Literary license is one thing, but using words that are flatly wrong and then demanding they be accepted is nonsense.
Would you be so understanding if some artists wanted to start labelling the color red as blue, because they feel like it, and they don’t care how confusing it is, or how dumb it makes them look?
Or if musicians started playing random accidentals in their Bach performances, because they don’t feel it’s important to alter keys at their whim?
Or if musicians started playing random accidentals in their Bach performances, because they don’t feel it’s important to alter keys at their whim?
That would be the equivalent of a writer inserting bacon random words.
The musical equivalent would be a musician making a deliberate choice to alter the performance because they like how it changes the piece. I would be perfectly fine with that.
The concept that precision in meaning isn’t important to writing is silly. Literary license is one thing, but using words that are flatly wrong and then demanding they be accepted is nonsense.
Would you be so understanding if some artists wanted to start labelling the color red as blue, because they feel like it, and they don’t care how confusing it is, or how dumb it makes them look?
Or if musicians started playing random accidentals in their Bach performances, because they don’t feel it’s important to alter keys at their whim?
That would be the equivalent of a writer inserting bacon random words.
The musical equivalent would be a musician making a deliberate choice to alter the performance because they like how it changes the piece. I would be perfectly fine with that.