Saddler
Chumono
The term “modern literati” is considered a protologism. A term used to fill a perceived gap in a language. As Walter stated, only time will tell if it becomes a neologism and then main stream.Yes, you do have the ''right'' to change the meaning of words of course, (there is no law), but what I meant is that regardless of what you call something and regardless of how many people listen to you does not make it true. Literati is a tree which gives you a certain specific feeling. It has nothing to do with subtlety although it can be. There can be no such a thing as ''modern literati.'' Literati is a type of tree which nature produces (and sometimes people can stumble into it if they are lucky) and as we know nature just does not have fashion periods. Only human activities do. I realize you have a lot of influence Walter, but that does not mean too much when we are concerned with the study of natural forms.
I am not saying your tree is not a literati. It may be viewed as such by many. For me it has a way to go but might be an outstanding literati sometime in the future. I don't know. The point is that because it has an oversize jin and is ''aggressive'' does not make it modern.
Here is some Australian literati. It can not be ''modernized''. It just is what it is.
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Here we have Japanese literati. Not subtle. In fact it can be looked at as being aggressive. So what does modern literati mean now?
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I won't bother you further.
Language is ever changing. In fact it has started to change so quickly recently, protologism was invented less then twenty years ago to describe the formation of very new words because the origins were so easily tracked to a specific instance with the success of the internet.
I used to fight the word fight Michael. Life god better when I realized that the English language is slowly being refined like a trees branch. The original word doesn't mean any less, it just is a more general term with better words under it to more accurately describe the subject. AKA nuance.
I am unable to come to terms with the term “vegan bacon” though so I Think I understand what you are feeling.