Sks44 t1_ja4vi2u wrote
Reply to comment by DefinitelyNotALeak in The movie “A Nightmare before Christmas” is about cultural appropriation by newtoIT-
“Do you think intention is all there is to meaning?”
I believe creative intent is the real thing and everything else brought to the table takes secondary position. Asserting that applied “meaning”, which is interchangeable depending on a myriad of things, takes precedence is to passively assert control over creative works. Which is bullshit.
DefinitelyNotALeak t1_ja4yxrk wrote
I am not sure there has to be precedence per se (though that depends on context too). I tend to think that the work speaks for itself, and any rational person can look at the text (and potentially subtext) and derive the intended meaning from it, but also possibly add additional meaning which the work itself gives room for (my example was to showcases one reason why additional meaning can exist).
In my example i'd definitely go as far and say that the meaning of said slang takes a certain level of precedence over the intent, it doesn't matter if i didn't know about it, the meaning is established already.
Would you disagree with that?
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