I think it's interesting that Lewis Carroll described this battle over language many years ago ‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful

I think it's interesting that Lewis Carroll described this battle over language many years ago ‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”