So….you're saying you love software engineers, and similarly love software engineering?
That is how it always starts. People collectively confuse words enough that someone subsequently comes along and declares the new nonstandard usage is the previously incorrect usage.
Before you know it, you have a bunch of illiterate slack-jawed fuckheads telling you the new definition for racism is unrelated to race, but for inhierant power dynamics leftover from when white people were god-kings on earth…and therefore nobody can be racist against white people.
I'm just saying, Faulkner might've used it as the nonstandard 'imply', but fuck Faulkner.
Words mean what they mean.