Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24323037-20140608045909/@comment-24.42.11.100-20140704084138

It's not a misuse. It's appropriately used because it's used that way in the lore. Any were- transformation is seen as lycanthropy in-game. There's a book that covers this in-game. If you paid attention to the game you'd know that in that book this issue is addressed; the people of tamriel are idiots, and they'll just call stuff by whatever name they feel like calling it. Were-beasts aren't special in this aspect, because everyone refers to Dwemer as dwarves, even though they aren't dwarves, nor are they short in stature.