It's not really a "choice" to use words how they are commonly understood but a choice to do the opposite. The point of Dijkstra's example is you can slap some term on a fundamentally different phenomenon to liken it to something more familiar but it confuses rather than clarifies anything.
The point that "swim" is not very consistent with "fly" is true enough but not really helpful. It doesn't change the commonly understood meaning of "swim" to include spinning a propeller just because "fly" doesn't imply anything about the particular means used to achieve flight.
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It's not really a "choice" to use words how they are commonly understood but a choice to do the opposite. The point of Dijkstra's example is you can slap some term on a fundamentally different phenomenon to liken it to something more familiar but it confuses rather than clarifies anything.
The point that "swim" is not very consistent with "fly" is true enough but not really helpful. It doesn't change the commonly understood meaning of "swim" to include spinning a propeller just because "fly" doesn't imply anything about the particular means used to achieve flight.