Yes. Some people use it wrong in a professional setting and it's really hard to correct without basically building a blacklist of cases where they used it wrong.
Regardless of how it is often used (and I would disagree with your assertion in this case), if you're not using it as an expression of frustration in the presentation, it's completely fine.
I think it's fair to say it's in a transitional phase at worst and while it would be ideal to avoid one cannot assume the connotation in every single use.
Whether it is ‘objectively’ so or not has little to do with professionalism, which kind of makes my point (which is that an important concept is falling into disrepair because the word for it is being misused). Anyway it seems I offended you, for which I apologise. My ire was roused by the usage, not the writer. I have no doubt I do worse often enough.
The academic usage of the word cult is quite different than the common usage, the common usage is the one that has relatively recently acquired a deragatory meaning.
I’m not in favor of taking words, misusing them, and then taking that misuse as standard and saying nobody should use them.
Right; that was intended to mean that people sometimes use them for disagreement, despite that they probably shouldn't. Any thoughts on a better wording?
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