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The use of the word addicting. It's not a word! You mean "addictive"!
— Wendy from Oakland | Language | 8.22.2009 | Comments (8)
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God bless you for this pet peeve. I hate "addicting" to. I hate it mainly because for the longest time I thought I was the stupid one because I was unaware addictive had an alternate form. Also becuase people use the word to describe the most mundane things like "chocolate is so addicting".
— Dizzy
If its used a lot then it eventually becomes a word. Like 'addicting'.
— Krista
Oh heavens, yes. I hate that!! Addicting?! Where do people come up with such stupidity?
— Bryony posted 8/26/2009
Well its really not that hard to just politely say to the person the right way to say it, unlike uppity douchebag commenter above me.
— paolo posted 9/4/2009
hey I'm not a douchebag :(
— posted 9/10/2009
I've heard this one a lot lately.
— Biffy posted 9/15/2009
THANK YOU.
— Nancy posted 8/24/2010
I googled this and it is, in fact, a word. Addict, addicted, addicting, just like most every other verb in English.
— Philip Lafleur posted 9/23/2010
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