Artistic license ( also known as dramatic license, historical license, poetic license, narrative license, licentia poetica, or simply license ) is a colloquial term, sometimes euphemism, used to denote the distortion of fact, alteration of the conventions of grammar or language, or rewording of pre-existing text made by an artist to improve a piece of art.

He distinguished himself with focus on the life of ordinary rural and urban people, with colloquial language and with a neat narrative.

Stylistically he alternates between his own detailed intellectual narrative style and the colloquial speech of peasants, squires and robbers.

The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic ( including all its colloquial varieties ), with 230 million native speakers, spoken mostly in the Middle East and North Africa.

* The ablative case is also important to comparative statements in colloquial Armenian.

Alcopop is a colloquial term describing certain flavored alcoholic beverages, including:

Although commonly used in a colloquial and less-violent sense, the phrase is particularly associated with a specific sociopathic culture-bound syndrome in Malaysian culture.

The sport is also very popular on the eastern side of the Adriatic, especially in Slovenia ( where it is known as balinanje or colloquial playing boče or bale from Italian bocce or palle meaning balls ), Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina ( in Serbo-Croatian known under the name of boćanje or simply playing boće ( colloquial also bućanje or playing balote ), originating in Italian boccie ).

In certain Gulf Arab countries, " bachelor " can refer to men who are single as well as immigrant men married to a spouse residing in their country of origin ( due to the high added cost of sponsoring a spouse onsite ), and a colloquial term " executive bachelor " is also used in rental and sharing accommodation advertisements to indicate availability to white-collar bachelors in particular.

Although mesoclisis is extremely formal in Brazilian Portuguese and tends to be circumscribed in lesser formal registers by avoiding synthetical future / conditional verb forms, European Portuguese still allows clitic object pronouns to surface as mesoclitics in colloquial situations:

The Colorado Front Range is a colloquial geographic term for the most populous region of the state of Colorado in the United States.

In Australia and South Africa, the colloquial term " China " is derived from " mate " rhyming with " China plate " ( the identical form, heard in expressions like " me old China " is also a long-established Cockney idiom ).

In addition, those German prepositions that require the genitive in formal language, tend to be used with the dative in contemporary colloquial German ; for example, " because of the weather " is often expressed as " wegen dem Wetter " instead of the formally correct " wegen des Wetters ".

FFT algorithms are so commonly employed to compute DFTs that the term " FFT " is often used to mean " DFT " in colloquial settings.

Though colloquial use of the word Doktor for physician is common.

The spelling is the anglicized version of the Hindi word and as a colloquial Anglo-Indian word with this meaning, it appears in the Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases ( 1903 ).

Masses are sometimes described as gravitational charges, the important feature of them being that there is only one type ( no negative masses ), or, in more colloquial terms, ' gravity is always attractive '.

Canadian rule books use the term goal area instead of end zone, but the latter term is the more common in colloquial Canadian English.

It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music.

This colloquial usage of the term is also common in medicine and in nutrition (" take plenty of fluids ").

Otchizna is considered to be very formal, and typically used by government heads, whereas Rodina is more colloquial and widespread.

Additionally, ' bra ' is sometimes used in colloquial English as an alteration of ' bro ', a shortening of ' brother ' with a meaning akin to ' companion '.

Pitching to Criger, who had also jumped to Boston, Young led the league in wins, strikeouts, and ERA, thus earning the colloquial AL Triple Crown for pitchers.

Edinburgh has also become associated with the crime novels of Ian Rankin, and the work of Irvine Welsh, whose novels are mostly set in the city and are often written in colloquial Scots.

However, over time East Germany's abbreviation DDR became colloquial also among most West Germans and West German media.

* Boxes, wall decoration, pictures and frames, clocks: colloquial expressions, also Swedish place names

Kiwi is also a colloquial name for New Zealanders.

The term " Middle Ages " and especially the adjective medieval can also have a negative ring in colloquial use (" the barbaric treatment of prisoners in such-and-such a prison is almost medieval ") but this does not carry over into academic terminology.

Their influential reasoning spread to other denominations also, and it is primarily through their influence that " Sabbath " has become the colloquial equivalent of " Lord's Day " or " Sunday ".

It can also be used as a measure of energy, for truck classification, or as a colloquial term.

The name of the car celebrated the new Communist planned economy but also referred to aeroplane inspiration (' éroplan ' means aeroplane in colloquial Czech ).

A tornado is also commonly referred to as a " twister ", and is also sometimes referred to by the old-fashioned colloquial term cyclone.

According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and general colloquial usage of the term, brandy may also be made from pomace and from fermented fruit other than grapes.

Vulgar Latin is sometimes also called colloquial Latin, or Common Romance ( particularly in the late stage ).

It reads, “ Cornelius Martyr .” The letters Cornelius sent while in exile are all written in the colloquial Latin of the period instead of the classical style used by the educated such as Cyprian, a theologian as well as a bishop, and Novatian, who was also a philosopher.

Recent work by scholars such as Ekki Lu, Sakai Toru, and Lí Khîn-hoāⁿ ( also known as Tavokan Khîn-hoāⁿ or Chin-An Li ), based on former research by scholars such as Ông Io ̍ k-tek, has gone so far as to associate part of the basic vocabulary of the colloquial Taiwanese with the Austronesian and Tai language families ; however, such claims are controversial.

In some colloquial usage, the word " altar " is used to denote the altar rail also, although this usage is technically incorrect.

The irony of the Bosnian language is that its speakers are, on the level of colloquial idiom, more linguistically homogeneous than either Serbs or Croats but they failed, for the historical reasons outlined below, to standardize their language in the crucial 19th century.

Aside from deduced self-portraits in Cănuţă om sucit and elsewhere, he created the famous background character Nenea Iancu (" Uncle Iancu "), building on his colloquial name and his status as a regular client of the beer gardens.

() is a colloquial term in Czech and Slovak for a panel building constructed of pre-fabricated, pre-stressed concrete, such as those extant in Czech Republic and elsewhere in the former Soviet bloc.

A colloquial variation adds a vowel sound, resulting in the pronunciation, " tar-POLE-ee-in ".