[fc417fc802]

You can't just conveniently ignore that "professionalism" is a concept that exists and is pretty clearly what the original author meant based on context and content. Refusing to interpret things in the most plausible manner just wastes everyone's time.

For example the phrase "unprofessional professional" means a professional (ie getting paid) who is behaving unprofessionally (ie exhibiting a lack of professionalism).

[pwdisswordfishy]

There's no ignoring it. It was raised pre-emptively in the very first comment: "the way that "professional" is used as a euphemism in Americans' bizarre discursive repertoire".

> the phrase "unprofessional professional" means

That's just an oxymoron.

> a professional (ie getting paid) who is behaving unprofessionally (ie exhibiting a lack of professionalism)

A professional who is getting paid, the (only) necessary and sufficient condition for being "professional", is by definition exhibiting professionalism. That's a fact, and it's not any more complicated than that.

[fc417fc802]

Why not bother to check a dictionary before responding? Your "raised pre-emptively" was nothing more than you being preemptively wrong. It can be used as either a noun or an adjective and has multiple well established definitions for each. You are fixated on one of them.

I'm not hiring that plumber again as he was rather unprofessional.

Your attire doesn't look professional.

> ... is by definition exhibiting professionalism.

Nope, wrong again.

I found the lack of professionalism during my recent visit alarming.