Reading it feels like nails on a chalkboard to me every time
I guess everyone turns into an out of touch boomer at some point. Just let it go and stop being a language prescriptivist. It'll be better for your mental state.
Same but for me its nucular in place of nuclear. Fucking shit isn't a word. Billions of people worldwide learned English so you motherfuckers can say stupid shit.
Hurts even more when you know its literally spelled the same in so many other languages too.
This one I hate specifically because every time someone says it I just hear George W Bush.
Addicting is forever embedded in the lexicon of a certain type of :freeze-gamer: who grew up during the mid 2000s and frequented a certain flash game website
I'm honestly getting a little sad thinking about those days
It took me a second to figure out what was wrong in this post even, I accepted both as right and identical without thinking
Every shitty casino-for-kids mobile phone game, usually in the fake reviews that somehow spin “addicting” as a positive.
Ah okay. I know why they do it. "Addictive" has a negative connotation so they're forced to put the positive spin on the other word. Perhaps you knew this. I can see why it would bug you.
My pet peeves
Antisocial vs Asocial. I want antisocial reserved for psychology and being a loner to be described as asocial. So I really like Kendrick Lamar's line about being an "antisocial extrovert"
Also Reactionary vs Reactive.
To be someone who reacts to everything is to be reactive. Reactionary should be reserved for politics
I use the bleeding of both abnormal psychology and backwards politics into apolitical discourse a part of a trend of western decline
Addicting being spun as good is a great example of that.
Dunno. Maybe further west. I've been in the North and South and really only heard addictive.
That said I don't play videogames and haven't for over a long time. I remember the site addictinggames.com. I think it easily could be a videogame dialect. Remember way back when I was a kid my mom would bitch that I was addicted to certain games. It's been well documented as addictive. Easily could be clever marketing from game companies to create a word. It also could be intentional slang to mimic kids misspeaking and it caught on.
full stop every time i see "addicting" used where "addictive" should be, why does my brain do this
The descriptive language fan vs the prescriptive language enjoyer.
You can do both. Language evolve and part of that is people complaining about changes being dumb and sometimes they get their way and new words go away.
actully addictive can also mean "prone to addiction", as in "they have an addictive personality". So addicting is needed to remove some possible ambiguity that may arise from just using addictive. so I believe you are btfo
You have inspired me to write a polemic against people who say "weary" when from context it appears they mean "wary."
I see "addictive" being an inate property.
And then "addicting" is something which is engineered to illicit unwanted addiction from you. Like highly processed foods, synthetic opioids I think I use them interchangeably based on the context, or games/services that utilize engagement algorithms.
A human work can still be addictive, or I guess all addicting things are addictive, but you could have a human work which is unintentionally addictive.
