I was just trying to explain this to my niece last week. She responded along the lines of how messy the English language is, but my counter argument was that i

I was just trying to explain this to my niece last week. She responded along the lines of how messy the English language is, but my counter argument was that it highlights the flexibility of language, which allows its use to be artistic as well as functional to a degree that's entirely at the discretion of the speaker / writer.